Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 11

Carrots have vitamin A, which the eye needs to see in dim light, but eating extra carrots does not give night vision; the story spread in the Second World War and, many historians say, helped hide the use of radar.

Who acts: Carrots, eye, A, eating, story, many historians · What happens: have, need, see, eat, not give, spread · To what, where: vitamin, A, dim light, extra carrots, night vision, Second World War · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology 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 (Carrots, eye, A, eating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	A	A	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vitamin	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 needs	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 A	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 light	case
13	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eating	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eating	cc
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 give	csubj
18	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 carrots	amod
19	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eating	obj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 give	advmod
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vision	compound
24	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 spread	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spread	nsubj
28	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 War	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 War	det
31	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 War	amod
32	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 War	compound
33	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 spread	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 say	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 say	punct
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 historians	amod
37	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 say	nsubj
38	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spread	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 helped	punct
40	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 spread	conj
41	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 helped	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 use	det
43	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hide	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 radar	case
45	radar	radar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 use	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Carrots	vitamin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient
2	need	present	the eye	A		tree rules
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	A not said here		dim light	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	eat	gerund		extra carrots		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient
5	not give	present · do-support	eating	night vision		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme
6	spread	past	the story		the Second World War	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in war=Location
7	say speech: assert	present	many historians			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	help	past	the story not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	hide	infinitive	the story not said here	the use of radar		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient
10	use			radar		nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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, 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:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:11.

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 ×5, 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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