--- title: Careful studies found that sugar does not make children hyperactive… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: Careful studies found that sugar does not make children hyperactive (too full of energy to calm down); excitement at parties is a likelier reason. Who acts: Careful studies, sugar, excitement. A sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/16/) [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/) / [I was wrong: changing your mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/) / 16 # I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 16 Careful studies found that sugar does not make children hyperactive (too full of energy to calm down); excitement at parties is a likelier reason. **Who acts:** Careful studies, sugar, excitement · **What happens:** find, not make, calm down, be · **To what, where:** children, likelier reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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 (Careful studies, sugar, excitement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:16 # text = Careful studies found that sugar does not make children hyperactive (too full of energy to calm down); excitement at parties is a likelier reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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 Careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 hyperactive hyperactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 likelier likely ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Careful studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | sugar | children | | | | hyperactive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product | | 3 | **calm down** | to-infinitive | sugar *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | excitement at parties | a likelier reason | | | | | tree rules | 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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:16`. **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: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/15/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)