--- title: In 2025 the UK government was reported to have announced a ban on se… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics description: In 2025 the UK government was reported to have announced a ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s in England. Who acts: ban. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 7 In 2025 the UK government was reported to have announced a ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s in England. **Who acts:** ban · **What happens:** report, announce, sell · **To what, where:** UK government, 2025, ban, caffeine energy drinks, 16s 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 (ban), 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:7 # text = In 2025 the UK government was reported to have announced a ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s in England. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux _ _ 10 announced announce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ban ban NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 15 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 caffeine caffeine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 18 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 16s 16 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | the UK government | | 2025 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · perfect | | a ban | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=Theme | | 3 | **sell** | gerund | a ban *not said here* | caffeine energy drinks | 16s in England | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drink=Theme to 16=Recipient | 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. **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:7`. **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 ×2, 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. 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