---
title: Others are just myths: microwaves don't make food radioactive, brown… — Food on the floor and kitchen rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Others are just myths: microwaves don't make food radioactive, brown eggs are no healthier than white ones, and a swallowed cherry stone grows no tree. Who acts: Others, microwaves, brown eggs, swallowed cherry stone. A sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths course
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Food on the floor and kitchen rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/) / 3

# Food on the floor and kitchen rules, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Others are just myths: microwaves don't make food radioactive, brown eggs are no healthier than white ones, and a swallowed cherry stone grows no tree.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Others, microwaves, brown eggs, swallowed cherry stone · **What happens:** be, not make, swallow, grow · **To what, where:** myths, food, tree

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» 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 (Others, microwaves, brown eggs, swallowed cherry stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.lesson:3
# text = Others are just myths: microwaves don't make food radioactive, brown eggs are no healthier than white ones, and a swallowed cherry stone grows no tree.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	amod	_	_
25	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Others | myths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | microwaves | food |  |  |  | radioactive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | brown eggs |  |  |  |  | than white ones | tree rules |
| 4 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | present | a swallowed cherry stone | no tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Food on the floor and kitchen rules, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/2/)
- next →: [Food on the floor and kitchen rules, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/)

