--- title: Carrots have vitamin A, which the eye needs to see in dim light, but… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Carrots have vitamin A, which the eye needs to see in dim light, but eating extra carrots does not give night vision; the story spread in the Second World War and, many historians say, helped hide the use of radar. Who acts: Carrots, eye, A, eating. 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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 (Carrots, eye, A, eating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:11 # text = Carrots have vitamin A, which the eye needs to see in dim light, but eating extra carrots does not give night vision; the story spread in the Second World War and, many historians say, helped hide the use of radar. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 A A NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 18 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 20 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:ccomp 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 32 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:ccomp 41 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 radar radar NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Carrots | vitamin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | the eye | A | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | A *not said here* | | | dim light | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | | extra carrots | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient | | 5 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | eating | night vision | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | past | the story | | | the Second World War | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in war=Location | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many historians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **help** | past | the story *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **hide** | infinitive | the story *not said here* | the use of radar | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient | | 10 | **use** | | | radar | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:11`. **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 ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: eyes and ears, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/9/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)