--- title: Japanese navy sailors who ate mostly white rice once fell ill with b… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Japanese navy sailors who ate mostly white rice once fell ill with beriberi, an illness that makes the legs weak and numb, until doctors added other foods. Who acts: Japanese navy sailors, illness, doctors. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japanese navy sailors, illness, doctors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:13 # text = Japanese navy sailors who ate mostly white rice once fell ill with beriberi, an illness that makes the legs weak and numb, until doctors added other foods. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 navy navy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 beriberi beriberi NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 numb numb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | Japanese navy sailors | white rice | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | | 2 | **fall** | past | Japanese navy sailors | | | | | with beriberi; ill, once *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | a illness | the legs | | | | weak *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | doctors | other foods | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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