What vitamins do, sentence 5

Carrots contain beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for seeing in dim light; extra carrots do not give night vision.

Who acts: Carrots, body, extra carrots · What happens: contain, turn, need, see, not give · To what, where: beta carotene, vitamin, dim light, night vision

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 (Carrots, body, extra carrots), 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 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beta	beta	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carotene	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 beta	punct
5	carotene	carotene	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carotene	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 turns	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carotene	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 vitamin	case
12	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obl
13	A	A	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vitamin	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 needed	punct
15	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 vitamin	acl
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 seeing	mark
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 needed	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 light	case
19	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 light	amod
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
22	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 carrots	amod
23	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 give	advmod
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 contain	parataxis
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vision	compound
28	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contain	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	contain	present	Carrots	beta carotene		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot carotene=Theme
2	turn	present	the body	beta carotene	vitamin	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme into vitamin=Trajectory
3	need	participle		vitamin not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	see	gerund			dim light	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not give	present · do-support	extra carrots	night vision		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme

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:5.

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 ×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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