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title: After a night's sleep the body needs fuel; skipping breakfast before… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: After a night's sleep the body needs fuel; skipping breakfast before morning sport can leave a player shaky, slow and unable to focus. Who acts: body, skipping, player, night. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 5

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After a night's sleep the body needs fuel; skipping breakfast before morning sport can leave a player shaky, slow and unable to focus.

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**Who acts:** body, skipping, player, night · **What happens:** need, skip, leave, focus, sleep · **To what, where:** fuel, breakfast, morning sport, player

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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 (body, skipping, player, night), 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:5
# text = After a night's sleep the body needs fuel; skipping breakfast before morning sport can leave a player shaky, slow and unable to focus.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
24	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	focus	focus	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | the body | fuel |  |  | after a night's sleep |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |
| 2 | **skip** | gerund |  | breakfast |  | morning sport |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent breakfast=Theme before sport=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | can | skipping | a player |  |  |  | shaky *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 4 | **focus** | to-infinitive | a player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | a night |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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 ×1, 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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