What vitamins do, sentence 7
Vitamin C helps wounds heal and keeps gums and skin healthy, and sailors once got scurvy from lacking it.
Who acts: Vitamin, wounds, sailors · What happens: help, heal, keep, get, lack · To what, where: gums, scurvy
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 (Vitamin, wounds, sailors), 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 | Vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vitamin | flat |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heal | nsubj |
| 5 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 keeps | cc |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 helps | conj |
| 8 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keeps | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skin | cc |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gums | conj |
| 11 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 14 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 helps | conj |
| 17 | scurvy | scurvy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 19 lacking | mark |
| 19 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 got | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lacking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Vitamin | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | heal | infinitive | wounds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | Vitamin not said here | gums and skin | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Theme | |||
| 4 | get | past | sailors | scurvy | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | lack | gerund | sailors not said here | scurvy | 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:7.
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.
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