What vitamins do, sentence 2

Long ago sailors on months-long voyages got scurvy, with bleeding gums and wounds that would not heal, until they took lemons and limes: the missing piece was vitamin C.

Who acts: sailors, gums, missing piece · What happens: get, bleed, not heal, take, be · To what, where: scurvy, gums, lemons, vitamin C.

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 (sailors, gums, missing piece), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 sailors	advmod
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 voyages	case
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 voyages	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 voyages	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voyages	amod
8	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailors	nmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bleeding	punct
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 bleeding	mark
13	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 got	advcl
14	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bleeding	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wounds	cc
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gums	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 heal	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 heal	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 heal	advmod
20	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gums	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 took	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	advcl
25	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 limes	cc
27	limes	lime	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lemons	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 C.	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 piece	det
30	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 piece	amod
31	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 C.	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 C.	cop
33	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 C.	compound
34	C.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	parataxis

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past	sailors on months long voyages	scurvy	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus
2	bleed	gerund	sailors on months long voyages not said here	gums and wounds	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gum=Source
3	not heal	would	gums and wounds		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	take	past	sailors = sailor	lemons and limes	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemon=Theme
5	is a	past	the missing piece	vitamin C.	tree rules

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:2.

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.

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