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title: Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to… — Healthy food, water and vitamins · tree and pragmatics
description: Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to repair itself. Who acts: Food, materials. A sentence of the lesson «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Healthy food, water and vitamins, sentence 0

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Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to repair itself.

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**Who acts:** Food, materials · **What happens:** give, need, grow, repair · **To what, where:** body energy, materials, Food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Healthy food, water and vitamins» 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 (Food, materials), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:036-healthy-food.lesson:0
# text = Food gives the body energy and the materials it needs to grow and to repair itself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 036-healthy-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	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | Food | the body energy and the materials |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | Food | the materials *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the materials *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **repair** | to-infinitive | the materials *not said here* | Food |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=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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**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:036-healthy-food.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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