--- title: Starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes are the body's ma… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics description: Starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes are the body's main fuel for running about, and wholegrain ones are best. Who acts: Starchy carbs, wholegrain ones. 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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 (Starchy carbs, wholegrain ones), 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:5 # text = Starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes are the body's main fuel for running about, and wholegrain ones are best. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Starchy starchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 carbs carb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 nmod _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 wholegrain wholegrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 26 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Starchy carbs like bread and pasta and rice and potatoes | the body's main fuel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run about** | gerund | | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | wholegrain ones | | | | | good *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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/4/) - next →: [Food myths and fads, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/)