--- title: Some small studies found chewing gum can make you feel a little more… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: Some small studies found chewing gum can make you feel a little more alert (awake and paying attention) for a short time, but the results are mixed, and gum gives no magic marks; many schools do not allow it. Who acts: small studies, chewing gum, you, gum. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/15/) [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/) / [School legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/) / 15 # School legends, sentence 15 Some small studies found chewing gum can make you feel a little more alert (awake and paying attention) for a short time, but the results are mixed, and gum gives no magic marks; many schools do not allow it. **Who acts:** small studies, chewing gum, you, gum, many schools · **What happens:** find, make, feel, pay, mix, give · **To what, where:** you, attention, results, magic marks, mark · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» 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 (small studies, chewing gum, you, gum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:15 # text = Some small studies found chewing gum can make you feel a little more alert (awake and paying attention) for a short time, but the results are mixed, and gum gives no magic marks; many schools do not allow it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 024-school-legends.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 chewing chewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 14 alert alert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 36 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 41 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:parataxis 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **find** | past | some small studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | can | chewing gum | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | alert *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **pay** | gerund | you *not said here* | attention | | | time | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 5 | **mix** | present · passive | | the results | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **give** | present | gum | no magic marks | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | | 7 | **not** **allow** | present · do-support | many schools | mark | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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:024-school-legends.lesson:15`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [School legends, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/14/) - next →: [School legends, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)