--- title: Minerals like calcium and iron are needed too: calcium builds bones… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Minerals like calcium and iron are needed too: calcium builds bones and teeth, and iron helps make red blood cells that carry oxygen. Who acts: calcium, iron, red blood cells. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # What vitamins do, sentence 1 Minerals like calcium and iron are needed too: calcium builds bones and teeth, and iron helps make red blood cells that carry oxygen. **Who acts:** calcium, iron, red blood cells · **What happens:** need, build, help, make, carry · **To what, where:** Minerals, bones, red blood cells, oxygen 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 (calcium, iron, red blood cells), 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:1 # text = Minerals like calcium and iron are needed too: calcium builds bones and teeth, and iron helps make red blood cells that carry oxygen. # 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): no change 1 Minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present · passive | | Minerals like calcium and iron | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **build** | present | calcium | bones and teeth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bone=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | iron | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | iron *not said here* | red blood cells | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product | | 5 | **carry** | present | red blood cells | oxygen | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | 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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