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# A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 12

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A study published in 2015 reported that about 4 in 10 players it checked at professional UK football clubs had tooth decay, and frequent sugary sports drinks, gels and bars were thought to be part of the reason.

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**Who acts:** study, 4 players · **What happens:** publish, report, check, have, think, be · **To what, where:** study, 2015, 4 players, professional UK football clubs, tooth decay, frequent sugary sports drinks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» 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 (study, 4 players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:12
# text = A study published in 2015 reported that about 4 in 10 players it checked at professional UK football clubs had tooth decay, and frequent sugary sports drinks, gels and bars were thought to be part of the reason.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
21	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	gels	gel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **publish** | participle |  | a study *not said here* |  | 2015 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **report** | past | a study |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | past | study | 4 players *not said here* |  | professional UK football clubs |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | 4 players | tooth decay |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decay=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | frequent sugary sports drinks and gels and bars |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | part |  |  |  | of the reason | 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:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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