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title: Athletes in adverts are paid to appear; they got fast from years of… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Athletes in adverts are paid to appear; they got fast from years of training, food and sleep, not from the can. Who acts: Athletes. 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 pragmatics of every 
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 15

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Athletes in adverts are paid to appear; they got fast from years of training, food and sleep, not from the can.

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**Who acts:** Athletes · **What happens:** pay, appear, get · **To what, where:** Athletes, can

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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 (Athletes), 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:15
# text = Athletes in adverts are paid to appear; they got fast from years of training, food and sleep, not from the can.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Athletes in adverts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | Athletes *= athlete* |  |  | the can | year | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from can=Destination |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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