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title: Sleep, breakfast and water help a child focus; caffeine more often b… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleep, breakfast and water help a child focus; caffeine more often brings jitters and worry. Who acts: Sleep, caffeine. 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 clause.
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 17

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Sleep, breakfast and water help a child focus; caffeine more often brings jitters and worry.

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**Who acts:** Sleep, caffeine · **What happens:** help, focus, bring · **To what, where:** jitters

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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 (Sleep, caffeine), 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:17
# text = Sleep, breakfast and water help a child focus; caffeine more often brings jitters and worry.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	focus	focus	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
15	jitters	jitter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **help** | present | Sleep and breakfast and water |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **focus** | infinitive | Sleep and breakfast and water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | present | caffeine | jitters and worry |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jitter=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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