--- title: The slogan that breakfast is "the most important meal" was spread pa… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics description: The slogan that breakfast is "the most important meal" was spread partly by cereal advertising; breakfast helps many children concentrate, but scientists debate how special it is. Who acts: breakfast, cereal advertising, many children, scientists. 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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 (breakfast, cereal advertising, many children, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:13 # text = The slogan that breakfast is "the most important meal" was spread partly by cereal advertising; breakfast helps many children concentrate, but scientists debate how special it is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 slogan slogan NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 4 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 acl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 partly partly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 advertising advertising NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 19 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 concentrate concentrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 debate debate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | breakfast | the important meal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spread** | past · passive | cereal advertising | the slogan | | | | partly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | breakfast | many children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **concentrate** | infinitive | many children *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | scientists | | | | | debate *property* | 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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R2-punct-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: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/12/) - next →: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/)