What vitamins do, sentence 9

Iron is needed to make red blood cells, and too little causes anaemia, which makes people tired and pale; a blood test can check iron levels.

Who acts: little, anaemia, blood test · What happens: need, make, cause, check · To what, where: Iron, red blood cells, anaemia, people, iron levels

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 (little, anaemia, blood test), 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	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	advcl
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 causes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 causes	cc
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 causes	nsubj
13	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	conj
14	anaemia	anaemia	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 causes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 anaemia	acl:relcl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 makes	obj
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pale	cc
21	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tired	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 check	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 test	det
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 test	compound
25	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 check	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 check	aux
27	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	parataxis
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 levels	compound
29	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 check	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		Iron		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		red blood cells		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product
3	cause	present	little	anaemia		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anaemia=Patient
4	make	present	anaemia	people	tired property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
5	check	can	a blood test	iron levels		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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