--- title: Coffee does not stunt growth, but it is still not good for children… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics description: Coffee does not stunt growth, but it is still not good for children because its caffeine can spoil sleep and make you jittery. Who acts: Coffee, caffeine. 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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 (Coffee, caffeine), 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:12 # text = Coffee does not stunt growth, but it is still not good for children because its caffeine can spoil sleep and make you jittery. # 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): no change 1 Coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 stunt stunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 caffeine caffeine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 20 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 jittery jittery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **stunt** | present · do-support | Coffee | growth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Coffee | | | | still | for children; good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spoil** | can | Coffee's caffeine | sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | Coffee's caffeine *not said here* | you | | | | jittery *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What really happens to things you swal…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/11/) - next →: [What really happens to things you swal…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/)