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title: Carb-loading is for long races of many hours, mostly for adults; bef… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics
description: Carb-loading is for long races of many hours, mostly for adults; before a short kids' race a normal meal is enough. Who acts: Carb loading, normal meal, kids. A sentence of the lesson «Food myths and fads» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Food myths and fads, sentence 10

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Carb-loading is for long races of many hours, mostly for adults; before a short kids' race a normal meal is enough.

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**Who acts:** Carb loading, normal meal, kids · **What happens:** be, race

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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 (Carb loading, normal meal, kids), 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:10
# text = Carb-loading is for long races of many hours, mostly for adults; before a short kids' race a normal meal is enough.
# 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): no change
1	Carb	carb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	loading	loading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | Carb loading |  |  |  | hour | for long races and adults | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a normal meal |  |  |  | before kids's short race | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **race** |  | kids |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): no change. **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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