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title: Carrots are healthy for the eyes but do not give night vision; that… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: Carrots are healthy for the eyes but do not give night vision; that story came from wartime propaganda, a made-up story spread on purpose during a war. Who acts: Carrots, story. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 7

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Carrots are healthy for the eyes but do not give night vision; that story came from wartime propaganda, a made-up story spread on purpose during a war.

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**Who acts:** Carrots, story · **What happens:** be, not give, come, make up, spread · **To what, where:** night vision, wartime propaganda, made story, purpose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrots, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:7
# text = Carrots are healthy for the eyes but do not give night vision; that story came from wartime propaganda, a made-up story spread on purpose during a war.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	wartime	wartime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=22:compound
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
26	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Carrots |  |  |  |  | for the eyes; healthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | Carrots *not said here* | night vision |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | that story |  |  | wartime propaganda |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from propaganda=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spread** | participle |  | a made story *not said here* |  | purpose | during a war |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=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.

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**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:everyday:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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