What vitamins do, sentence 11

B vitamins help the body turn food into energy, and vegans usually need a B12 supplement, an extra pill, because B12 comes mainly from animal foods.

Who acts: B vitamins, body, vegans, B12 · What happens: help, turn, need, come · To what, where: body, food, energy, B12 supplement, animal foods

This is a sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine 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 (B vitamins, body, vegans, B12), 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	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vitamins	compound
2	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	obj
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 energy	case
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 need	cc
12	vegans	vegan	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 need	nsubj
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 supplement	det
16	B12	b12	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 supplement	compound
17	supplement	supplement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pill	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pill	det
20	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pill	amod
21	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 supplement	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 comes	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 comes	mark
24	B12	b12	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comes	nsubj
25	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 need	advcl
26	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	25 comes	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 foods	case
28	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 foods	compound
29	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	present	B vitamins	the body			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	turn	infinitive	the body not said here	food	energy		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme into energy=Trajectory
3	need	present	vegans	a B12 supplement		usually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supplement=Theme
4	come	present	B12		animal foods	mainly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from food=Initial_Location

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:medicine:021-what-vitamins-do.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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