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title: A proper meal is best eaten about 2 to 3 hours before sport so the s… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: A proper meal is best eaten about 2 to 3 hours before sport so the stomach has time to empty. Who acts: stomach. 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 clause.
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# Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 6

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A proper meal is best eaten about 2 to 3 hours before sport so the stomach has time to empty.

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**Who acts:** stomach · **What happens:** eat, have, empty · **To what, where:** proper meal

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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 (stomach), 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:6
# text = A proper meal is best eaten about 2 to 3 hours before sport so the stomach has time to empty.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	empty	empty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **eat** | present · passive |  | a proper meal |  |  | before sport; hour | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | the stomach |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **empty** | to-infinitive | the stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

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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:6`.

**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 ×1. **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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