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title: There is no evidence that eating bananas before a match makes you sc… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no evidence that eating bananas before a match makes you score more goals; it is a team ritual. Who acts: evidence, match, you. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 13

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There is no evidence that eating bananas before a match makes you score more goals; it is a team ritual.

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**Who acts:** evidence, match, you · **What happens:** be, eat, make, score · **To what, where:** bananas, you, more goals, team ritual

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 (evidence, match, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:13
# text = There is no evidence that eating bananas before a match makes you score more goals; it is a team ritual.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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 ×2
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	4	det	_	_
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	score	score	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ritual	ritual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | no evidence *not said here* | bananas |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | a match | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **score** | infinitive | you *not said here* | more goals |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | match | a team ritual |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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