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title: Too much sugar can cause tooth decay and too much weight. — Healthy food, water and vitamins · tree and pragmatics
description: Too much sugar can cause tooth decay and too much weight. Who acts: much sugar. 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 18

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Too much sugar can cause tooth decay and too much weight.

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**Who acts:** much sugar · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** tooth decay

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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 (much sugar), 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:18
# text = Too much sugar can cause tooth decay and too much weight.
# 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	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cause** | can | much sugar | tooth decay and much weight |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=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: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): 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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