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title: Why are vitamins A and D riskier to overdo than vitamin C? — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are vitamins A and D riskier to overdo than vitamin C? Test 7 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 right.
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# Test 7 · What vitamins do

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why are vitamins A and D riskier to overdo than vitamin C?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, overdo · **To what, where:** vitamins

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t7:1
# text = Why are vitamins A and D riskier to overdo than vitamin C?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	riskier	risky	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	overdo	overdo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | vitamins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overdo** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than vitamin C | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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They are poisonous in any amount, even a tiny one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t7:o1:1
# text = They are poisonous in any amount, even a tiny one
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  | any amount |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Vitamin C is not a real vitamin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t7:o2:1
# text = Vitamin C is not a real vitamin
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Vitamin C | a real vitamin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They are stored in the body and can build up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t7:o3:1
# text = They are stored in the body and can build up
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | present · passive |  | They |  | the body |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in body=Location |
| 2 | **build up** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A and D are only in sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t7:o4:1
# text = A and D are only in sweets
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a D |  |  | sweets |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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