---
title: Kai in Manchester is ten and waves a giant can before footy, and his… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai in Manchester is ten and waves a giant can before footy, and his cousin snatches it: «You're 10, our kid» («our kid» is Mancunian for a brother or close family member), «shops shouldn't even sell you that». Who acts: Kai, cousin, You, kid. A sentence of the lesson «Energy drinks: why they're not
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Energy drinks: why they're not for kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/) / 2

# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kai in Manchester is ten and waves a giant can before footy, and his cousin snatches it: «You're 10, our kid» («our kid» is Mancunian for a brother or close family member), «shops shouldn't even sell you that».

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kai, cousin, You, kid, shops · **What happens:** be, wave, snatch, not sell · **To what, where:** ten, giant can, can, 10, Mancunian, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Kai, cousin, You, kid), 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:2
# text = Kai in Manchester is ten and waves a giant can before footy, and his cousin snatches it: «You're 10, our kid» («our kid» is Mancunian for a brother or close family member), «shops shouldn't even sell you that».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	footy	footy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	snatches	snatch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	Mancunian	mancunian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
45	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
46	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	49	obj	_	_
52	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kai in Manchester | ten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wave** | present |  | a giant can |  |  | before footy |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient |
| 3 | **snatch** | present | Kai's cousin | can |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | 10 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | our kid | Mancunian |  |  |  | for a brother or close family member | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **sell** *in a quote* | should | shops | that | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/15/)
- next →: [Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/3/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/)

