--- title: Careful studies, where neither children nor parents knew who had sug… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics description: Careful studies, where neither children nor parents knew who had sugar, found sugar did not make children hyperactive (wildly overactive); excitement at parties is the more likely cause, and the secret mattered, because parents who think a child had sugar tend to notice wilder behaviour. 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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 (children, 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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:6 # text = Careful studies, where neither children nor parents knew who had sugar, found sugar did not make children hyperactive (wildly overactive); excitement at parties is the more likely cause, and the secret mattered, because parents who think a child had sugar tend to notice wilder behaviour. # 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): no change 1 Careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 5 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 6 cc:preconj _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 8 cc _ _ 8 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 hyperactive hyperactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 overactive overactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 mattered matter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 because because SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 41 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 47 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 wilder wild ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 52 amod _ _ 52 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | children nor parents | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | | sugar | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 3 | **find** | past | Careful studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | sugar | children | | | | hyperactive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product | | 5 | **is a** | present | excitement at parties | the likely cause | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **matter** | past | the secret | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | parents | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **have** | past | a child | sugar | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 9 | **tend** | present | parents | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **notice** | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* | wilder behaviour | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer behaviour=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/5/) - next →: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/)