Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, sentence 0
A hundred years ago many city children had rickets: soft bones and bowed legs, because smoke hid the sun and their skin could not make vitamin D, and a spoon of cod-liver oil really helped them.
Who acts: many city children, smoke, skin, spoon · What happens: have, bow, hide, not make, help · To what, where: rickets, sun, vitamin D, children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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 (many city children, smoke, skin, spoon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 children | compound |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | rickets | ricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 bones | punct |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bones | amod |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rickets | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 legs | cc |
| 14 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 legs | amod |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bones | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 hid | mark |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 make | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 skin | nmod:poss |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 make | advmod |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hid | conj |
| 28 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 D | compound |
| 29 | D | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 helped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 helped | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 spoon | det |
| 33 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 helped | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 oil | case |
| 35 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 liver | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 cod | punct |
| 37 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 oil | compound |
| 38 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spoon | nmod |
| 39 | really | really | ADV | _ | 40 helped | advmod |
| 40 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 helped | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | many city children | rickets | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ricket=Patient | |||
| 2 | bow | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hide | past | smoke | the sun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not make | could | children's skin | vitamin D | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset d=Product | ||||
| 5 | help | past | a spoon of liver oil | children = child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:022-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil.lesson:0.
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 ×2. 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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