--- title: In one study, mothers were told their young sons had drunk sugar whe… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In one study, mothers were told their young sons had drunk sugar when the drink had none, and they still judged the boys more hyper; careful studies find that sugar does not make children hyperactive. Who acts: young sons, drink, sons, careful studies. 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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 (young sons, drink, sons, careful studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:8 # text = In one study, mothers were told their young sons had drunk sugar when the drink had none, and they still judged the boys more hyper; careful studies find that sugar does not make children hyperactive. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 drunk drunk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 13 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 judged judge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 hyper hyper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:DT:_ 33 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 hyperactive hyperactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | mothers | | one study | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **drunk** | past · perfect | mothers's young sons | sugar | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | the drink | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 4 | **judge** | past | sons *= son* | the boys | | | still | hyper *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent boy=Value | | 5 | **find** | present | careful studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | sugar | children | | | | hyperactive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product | 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/)