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title: Caffeine works the same whoever bought the can, so a drink handed on… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Caffeine works the same whoever bought the can, so a drink handed on by an older kid is just as bad. Who acts: Caffeine, whoever, drink. 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 e
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 16

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Caffeine works the same whoever bought the can, so a drink handed on by an older kid is just as bad.

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**Who acts:** Caffeine, whoever, drink · **What happens:** work, buy, hand on, be · **To what, where:** same, can, drink

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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 (Caffeine, whoever, drink), 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:16
# text = Caffeine works the same whoever bought the can, so a drink handed on by an older kid is just as bad.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Caffeine | the same |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material |
| 2 | **buy** | past | whoever | the can |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Theme |
| 3 | **hand on** | participle |  | a drink *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | a drink |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:052-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids.lesson:16`.

**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): 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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