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title: A big chocolate bar before a match can give a quick lift then a slum… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics
description: A big chocolate bar before a match can give a quick lift then a slump and sit uneasily in the stomach; toast, a banana or cereal give steadier energy. Who acts: big chocolate bar, toast. A sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sc
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# A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 15

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A big chocolate bar before a match can give a quick lift then a slump and sit uneasily in the stomach; toast, a banana or cereal give steadier energy.

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**Who acts:** big chocolate bar, toast · **What happens:** give, sit · **To what, where:** quick lift, stomach, steadier energy

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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 (big chocolate bar, toast), 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:15
# text = A big chocolate bar before a match can give a quick lift then a slump and sit uneasily in the stomach; toast, a banana or cereal give steadier energy.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	slump	slump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	steadier	steadier	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **give** | can | a big chocolate bar before a match | a quick lift |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lift=Recipient slump=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | a big chocolate bar before a match *not said here* |  |  | the stomach |  | uneasily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stomach=Location |
| 3 | **give** | present | toast and a banana or cereal | steadier energy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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