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title: Breakfast literally breaks a fast: if you ate tea at 6 pm and play a… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: Breakfast literally breaks a fast: if you ate tea at 6 pm and play at 10 am, your body has gone 16 hours with no food and needs fuel before it can run. Who acts: Breakfast, you, body. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school w
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# Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 0

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Breakfast literally breaks a fast: if you ate tea at 6 pm and play at 10 am, your body has gone 16 hours with no food and needs fuel before it can run.

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**Who acts:** Breakfast, you, body · **What happens:** break, eat, play, go, need, run · **To what, where:** fast, tea, 6 pm, 10 am, fuel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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 (Breakfast, you, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:053-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after.lesson:0
# text = Breakfast literally breaks a fast: if you ate tea at 6 pm and play at 10 am, your body has gone 16 hours with no food and needs fuel before it can run.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 053-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ate	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
10	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **break** | present | Breakfast | a fast |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fast=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | tea |  | 6 pm |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |
| 3 | **play** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | 10 am |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect | your body |  |  |  | hour | with no food | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with food=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **need** | present | your body *not said here* | fuel |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | can | body |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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, R8-pos-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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