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title: Starchy food is great fuel, but the body also needs protein, fruit a… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Starchy food is great fuel, but the body also needs protein, fruit and veg, dairy and some fats, because no single food has everything. Who acts: Starchy food, body, single food. A sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school wit
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# A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 7

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Starchy food is great fuel, but the body also needs protein, fruit and veg, dairy and some fats, because no single food has everything.

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**Who acts:** Starchy food, body, single food · **What happens:** be, need, have · **To what, where:** great fuel, protein, everything

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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 (Starchy food, body, single food), 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:7
# text = Starchy food is great fuel, but the body also needs protein, fruit and veg, dairy and some fats, because no single food has everything.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Starchy	starchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	veg	veg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	fats	fat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
25	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
28	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Starchy food | great fuel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | the body | protein and fruit and veg and dairy and some fats |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protein=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | no single food | everything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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**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. **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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