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title: Spinach contains iron, but the body absorbs it poorly, so spinach is… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Spinach contains iron, but the body absorbs it poorly, so spinach is not the iron superfood of cartoons. Who acts: Spinach, body. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What vitamins do, sentence 10

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Spinach contains iron, but the body absorbs it poorly, so spinach is not the iron superfood of cartoons.

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**Who acts:** Spinach, body · **What happens:** contain, absorb, not be · **To what, where:** iron, iron superfood

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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 (Spinach, 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:10
# text = Spinach contains iron, but the body absorbs it poorly, so spinach is not the iron superfood of cartoons.
# 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	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	absorbs	absorb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	superfood	superfood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Spinach | iron |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme |
| 2 | **absorb** | present | the body | iron |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal it=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | spinach | the iron superfood |  |  |  | of cartoons | tree rules |

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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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**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): no change. **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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