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title: Why might a child who stays indoors in a dark northern winter need v… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a child who stays indoors in a dark northern winter need vitamin D more than one in sunny Spain in summer? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

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Why might a child who stays indoors in a dark northern winter need vitamin D more than one in sunny Spain in summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** stay, need · **To what, where:** vitamin D

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t6:1
# text = Why might a child who stays indoors in a dark northern winter need vitamin D more than one in sunny Spain in summer?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	D	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | a child |  |  |  | winter | indoors *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | might | a child | vitamin D |  |  |  |  | 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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Spain puts vitamin D in the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t6:o1:1
# text = Spain puts vitamin D in the sea
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	D	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | Spain | vitamin D |  | the sea |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent d=Theme in sea=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Strong sunlight lets skin make vitamin D, weak winter light doesn't

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t6:o2:1
# text = Strong sunlight lets skin make vitamin D, weak winter light doesn't
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	D	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Strong sunlight |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | skin | vitamin D |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset d=Product |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | weak winter light |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cold weather destroys bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t6:o3:1
# text = Cold weather destroys bones
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	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 | **destroy** | present | Cold weather | bones |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Children in the north eat no food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t6:o4:1
# text = Children in the north eat no food
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Children in the north | no food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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