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title: A racing, fluttery heart means stop, sit down and tell an adult; fee… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: A racing, fluttery heart means stop, sit down and tell an adult; feeling faint or chest pain means 999. Who acts: racing fluttery heart, faint pain. A sentence of the lesson «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 12

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A racing, fluttery heart means stop, sit down and tell an adult; feeling faint or chest pain means 999.

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**Who acts:** racing fluttery heart, faint pain · **What happens:** mean, stop, sit down, tell, feel · **To what, where:** adult, 999 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (racing fluttery heart, faint pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:052-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids.lesson:12
# text = A racing, fluttery heart means stop, sit down and tell an adult; feeling faint or chest pain means 999.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 052-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	racing	racing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	fluttery	fluttery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
17	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a racing fluttery heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a racing fluttery heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | a racing fluttery heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a racing fluttery heart *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **mean** | present | faint pain | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 999=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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