--- title: A best-before date is about quality and a use-by date on fresh food… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics description: A best-before date is about quality and a use-by date on fresh food is about safety; the batch number printed beside it lets a factory recall every packet from one bad batch. Who acts: best date, use, batch number. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/18/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Chocolate and sweets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/) / 18 # Chocolate and sweets, sentence 18 A best-before date is about quality and a use-by date on fresh food is about safety; the batch number printed beside it lets a factory recall every packet from one bad batch. **Who acts:** best date, use, batch number · **What happens:** be, print, let, recall · **To what, where:** batch number, date, packet, one bad batch This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (best date, use, batch number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:18 # text = A best-before date is about quality and a use-by date on fresh food is about safety; the batch number printed beside it lets a factory recall every packet from one bad batch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 11 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 batch batch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 beside beside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 recall recall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 packet packet NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 36 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 batch batch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **is** | present | a best date | | | | before quality and safety | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | use and a date on fresh food | | | | | about safety | tree rules | | 3 | **print** | participle | | the batch number *not said here* | | date | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **let** | present | the batch number | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **recall** | infinitive | the batch number *not said here* | every packet | | one bad batch | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent packet=Theme from batch=Source | 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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, 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: [Chocolate and sweets, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/17/) - next →: [Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/)