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title: A child's smaller body feels a dose of caffeine more strongly than a… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: A child's smaller body feels a dose of caffeine more strongly than an adult's, and there is no safe amount advised for children. Who acts: smaller body, safe amount. 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
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# Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 8

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A child's smaller body feels a dose of caffeine more strongly than an adult's, and there is no safe amount advised for children.

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**Who acts:** smaller body, safe amount · **What happens:** feel, be, advise · **To what, where:** dose, safe amount

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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 (smaller body, safe amount), 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:8
# text = A child's smaller body feels a dose of caffeine more strongly than an adult's, and there is no safe amount advised 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): R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
12	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **feel** | present | a child's smaller body | a dose of caffeine |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | no safe amount |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | participle |  | no safe amount *not said here* |  |  |  | for children | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×3. **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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