--- title: Vitamins are substances the body needs in tiny amounts to work prope… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Vitamins are substances the body needs in tiny amounts to work properly, and because it can't make enough of most of them, they have to come from food. Who acts: Vitamins, body. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [What vitamins do](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/) / 0 # What vitamins do, sentence 0 Vitamins are substances the body needs in tiny amounts to work properly, and because it can't make enough of most of them, they have to come from food. **Who acts:** Vitamins, body · **What happens:** be, need, work, not make, have, come · **To what, where:** substances, tiny amounts, enough, food This is a sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine 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 (Vitamins, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:021-what-vitamins-do.lesson:0 # text = Vitamins are substances the body needs in tiny amounts to work properly, and because it can't make enough of most of them, they have to come from food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 021-what-vitamins-do.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 properly properly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 20 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Vitamins | substances | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | the body | substances *not said here* | | tiny amounts | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot substance=Theme | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* | | | | | properly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **make** | can | body | enough | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material enough=Product | | 5 | **have** | present | Vitamins *= vitamin* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | Vitamins *= vitamin* *not said here* | | | food | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from food=Initial\_Location | 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. 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