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title: Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a bana… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercise cramp comes from tired muscles, not low potassium. Who acts: Tom, banana, scientists, most exercise cramp. A sentence of the lesson «Food myths and f
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# Food myths and fads, sentence 1

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Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercise cramp comes from tired muscles, not low potassium.

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**Who acts:** Tom, banana, scientists, most exercise cramp · **What happens:** get, yell, take, digest, think, come · **To what, where:** cramp, tired muscles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food myths and fads» 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 (Tom, banana, scientists, most exercise cramp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:1
# text = Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercise cramp comes from tired muscles, not low potassium.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 055-food-myths-and-fads.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	80th	80th	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
30	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	potassium	potassium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Tom | cramp |  |  | minute |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cramp=Stimulus |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a banana | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for banana=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | present | a banana |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **digest** | to-infinitive | a banana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | present | most exercise cramp |  |  | tired muscles and low potassium |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from muscle=Initial\_Location |

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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:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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