--- title: No food or drink melts belly fat; lemon water is fine to drink, but… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: No food or drink melts belly fat; lemon water is fine to drink, but it does not burn fat, and people who say a drink does may be selling something. Who acts: food, lemon water, water, people. 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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 (food, lemon water, water, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:14 # text = No food or drink melts belly fat; lemon water is fine to drink, but it does not burn fat, and people who say a drink does may be selling something. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 lemon lemon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 21 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 33 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** | present | no food or drink | belly fat | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fat=Result | | 2 | **is** | present | lemon water | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | lemon water *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | water | fat | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sell** | may · present · progressive · do-support | a drink | something | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | 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:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:14`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Viral facts and chain messages, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/13/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)