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title: If time is short, a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toa… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: If time is short, a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast gives some fuel without a heavy stomach. Who acts: time, small easy 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 pragma
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# Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 8

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If time is short, a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast gives some fuel without a heavy stomach.

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**Who acts:** time, small easy snack · **What happens:** be, give, slice · **To what, where:** fuel, toast

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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 (time, small easy 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:8
# text = If time is short, a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast gives some fuel without a heavy stomach.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | time |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast | some fuel |  |  |  | without a heavy stomach | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |
| 3 | **slice** |  |  | toast |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:8`.

**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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