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title: What would happen to a sailor on a year-long voyage with no fruit or… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a sailor on a year-long voyage with no fruit or vegetables? Test 3 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · What vitamins do

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What would happen to a sailor on a year-long voyage with no fruit or vegetables?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** long voyage

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This is test 3 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t3:1
# text = What would happen to a sailor on a year-long voyage with no fruit or vegetables?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a long voyage with no fruit or vegetables |  | to a sailor | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He would get stronger bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t3:o1:1
# text = He would get stronger bones
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | He | stronger bones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, because ship biscuits have all the vitamins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t3:o2:1
# text = Nothing, because ship biscuits have all the vitamins
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | ship biscuits | all vitamins |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He could get scurvy from lack of vitamin C

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t3:o3:1
# text = He could get scurvy from lack of vitamin C
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | He | scurvy |  | lack of vitamin C |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scurvy=Theme from lack=Source |
| 2 | **lack** |  |  | vitamin C |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He would get night vision

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t3:o4:1
# text = He would get night vision
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | He | night vision |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus |

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