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title: There is no good evidence that cheese gives you nightmares (the idea… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no good evidence that cheese gives you nightmares (the idea got a push from Dickens's Scrooge blaming "a crumb of cheese" for a ghost); a big, heavy meal late at night can disturb sleep, whatever the food. Who acts: good evidence, cheese, idea, Scrooge. A sentence of the lesson «What really
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 10

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There is no good evidence that cheese gives you nightmares (the idea got a push from Dickens's Scrooge blaming "a crumb of cheese" for a ghost); a big, heavy meal late at night can disturb sleep, whatever the food.

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**Who acts:** good evidence, cheese, idea, Scrooge, big heavy meal · **What happens:** be, give, get, blame, disturb · **To what, where:** nightmares, you, push, Scrooge, crumb, sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (good evidence, cheese, idea, Scrooge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:10
# text = There is no good evidence that cheese gives you nightmares (the idea got a push from Dickens's Scrooge blaming "a crumb of cheese" for a ghost); a big, heavy meal late at night can disturb sleep, whatever the food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Dickens	Dickens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	Scrooge	scrooge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
38	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
43	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no good evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | cheese | nightmares | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nightmare=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | the idea | a push |  | Dickens's Scrooge |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent push=Theme from scrooge=Source |
| 4 | **blame** | gerund | Dickens's Scrooge *not said here* | a crumb of cheese |  |  |  | for a ghost | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme for ghost=Attribute |
| 5 | **disturb** | can | a big heavy meal | sleep |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer whatever=Result |

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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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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