--- title: B vitamins help the body turn food into energy, and vegans usually n… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: B vitamins help the body turn food into energy, and vegans usually need a B12 supplement, an extra pill, because B12 comes mainly from animal foods. Who acts: B vitamins, body, vegans, B12. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # What vitamins do, sentence 11 B vitamins help the body turn food into energy, and vegans usually need a B12 supplement, an extra pill, because B12 comes mainly from animal foods. **Who acts:** B vitamins, body, vegans, B12 · **What happens:** help, turn, need, come · **To what, where:** body, food, energy, B12 supplement, animal foods 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 (B vitamins, body, vegans, B12), 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:11 # text = B vitamins help the body turn food into energy, and vegans usually need a B12 supplement, an extra pill, because B12 comes mainly from animal foods. # 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 ×3 1 B B NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 vegans vegan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 B12 b12 NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 supplement supplement NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pill pill NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 B12 b12 NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 26 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **help** | present | B vitamins | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | food | | energy | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme into energy=Trajectory | | 3 | **need** | present | vegans | a B12 supplement | | | | usually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supplement=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | B12 | | | animal foods | | mainly *property* | 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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