--- title: Not every food tip is a fad: in the dreich, dark Scottish winter (dr… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics description: Not every food tip is a fad: in the dreich, dark Scottish winter (dreich means grey and drizzly) Kirsty's mum gives her a vitamin D drop, because UK advice says everyone should think about it in autumn and winter, so the trick is to follow real advice, not fads either way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food tip, dreich, mum, UK advice), 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:3 # text = Not every food tip is a fad: in the dreich, dark Scottish winter (dreich means grey and drizzly) Kirsty's mum gives her a vitamin D drop, because UK advice says everyone should think about it in autumn and winter, so the trick is to follow real advice, not fads either way. # 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 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fad fad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 19 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 drizzly drizzly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 23 Kirsty Kirsty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:iobj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound 30 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 37 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 39 nsubj _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 53 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 fads fad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 conj _ _ 58 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 59 det _ _ 59 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:obl:unmarked 60 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | every food tip | a fad and the dreich and dark Scottish winter | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | dreich | | | | | grey *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | Kirsty's mum | a D drop | dreich | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient drop=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | UK advice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | should | everyone | | | | autumn | about advice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the trick | | | | | follow *property* | tree rules | 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:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Food myths and fads, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/1/) - next →: [Food myths and fads, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/)