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description: If kids who take vitamin gummies are healthier, it may be because their families also eat well and exercise; going together is not the same as causing. Who acts: kids, sale, families, going. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 12

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If kids who take vitamin gummies are healthier, it may be because their families also eat well and exercise; going together is not the same as causing.

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**Who acts:** kids, sale, families, going · **What happens:** take, be, eat, exercise, go together, not be · **To what, where:** vitamin gummies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» 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 (kids, sale, families, going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:12
# text = If kids who take vitamin gummies are healthier, it may be because their families also eat well and exercise; going together is not the same as causing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gummies	gummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	exercise	exercise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | kids | vitamin gummies |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gummy=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | kids |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | may | sale |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | present | kids's families |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **exercise** | present | kids's families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go together** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | going |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **cause** | gerund | going *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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**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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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