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title: A small light snack such as a banana is far better than nothing, and… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: A small light snack such as a banana is far better than nothing, and far better than a greasy fry-up. Who acts: small light snack. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 3

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A small light snack such as a banana is far better than nothing, and far better than a greasy fry-up.

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**Who acts:** small light snack · **What happens:** be

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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 (small light snack), 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:3
# text = A small light snack such as a banana is far better than nothing, and far better than a greasy fry-up.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	fry	fry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a small light snack such a banana |  |  |  |  | than nothing; far, good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a small light snack such a banana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than a greasy fry up; far *property* | tree rules |

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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:053-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after.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): no change. **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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