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title: Vegetables give your body fibre and vitamins, which is a real reason… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Vegetables give your body fibre and vitamins, which is a real reason to eat peas, today and long ago. Who acts: Vegetables, body fibre. A sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 16

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Vegetables give your body fibre and vitamins, which is a real reason to eat peas, today and long ago.

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**Who acts:** Vegetables, body fibre · **What happens:** give, be, eat · **To what, where:** body fibre, real reason, peas

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 (Vegetables, body fibre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:16
# text = Vegetables give your body fibre and vitamins, which is a real reason to eat peas, today and long ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.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 ×1
1	Vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Vegetables | your body fibre and vitamins |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your body fibre and vitamins | a real reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Vegetables *not said here* | peas |  |  | today |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

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