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title: The buzz is short and the crash is real: a racing heart, shaky hands… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: The buzz is short and the crash is real: a racing heart, shaky hands, a wired brain at midnight, then a flop like a wet sock, and the can itself says it is not recommended for children. Who acts: buzz, crash, can. A sentence of the lesson «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» of the medicine cou
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 3

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The buzz is short and the crash is real: a racing heart, shaky hands, a wired brain at midnight, then a flop like a wet sock, and the can itself says it is not recommended for children.

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**Who acts:** buzz, crash, can · **What happens:** be, say, not recommend · **To what, where:** can · **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 (buzz, crash, can), 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:3
# text = The buzz is short and the crash is real: a racing heart, shaky hands, a wired brain at midnight, then a flop like a wet sock, and the can itself says it is not recommended for children.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	buzz	buzz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wired	wire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
20	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flop	flop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:appos
36	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	ccomp	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the buzz |  |  |  |  | a racing heart and shaky hands and a wired brain at midnight and a flop like a wet sock *obl*; short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the crash |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the can  can |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **recommend** | present · passive |  | can |  |  |  | for children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for child=Attribute |

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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:3`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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