--- title: Growing, sporty children need regular meals, and skipping meals leav… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics description: Growing, sporty children need regular meals, and skipping meals leaves them tired, moody and slower and harms growth. Who acts: sporty children, skipping. A sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/54-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [A balanced plate for a kid who plays s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/54-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport/) / 16 # A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 16 Growing, sporty children need regular meals, and skipping meals leaves them tired, moody and slower and harms growth. **Who acts:** sporty children, skipping · **What happens:** grow, need, skip, leave, harm · **To what, where:** regular meals, meals, children, growth 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 (sporty children, skipping), 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:16 # text = Growing, sporty children need regular meals, and skipping meals leaves them tired, moody and slower and harms growth. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 sporty sporty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 moody moody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | sporty children *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | sporty children | regular meals | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme | | 3 | **skip** | gerund | | meals | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | present | skipping | children *= child* | | | | tired *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **harm** | present | skipping *not said here* | growth | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus growth=Experiencer | 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. **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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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