--- title: And sometimes the strange claim wins: eat mountains of carrots and y… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics description: And sometimes the strange claim wins: eat mountains of carrots and your skin really can turn a bit orange, and you really are a little taller in the morning than at bedtime. Who acts: strange claim, wins, skin, you. 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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 (strange claim, wins, skin, you), 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:4 # text = And sometimes the strange claim wins: eat mountains of carrots and your skin really can turn a bit orange, and you really are a little taller in the morning than at bedtime. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:cc 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound 6 wins win NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 20 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | | the strange claim | | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | wins | mountains of carrots | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | can | your skin | | | | | orange *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | morning | than bedtime; a little *obl:unmarked*; tall *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:4`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/3/) - next →: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/)