--- title: Long ago sailors on months-long voyages got scurvy, with bleeding gu… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago sailors on months-long voyages got scurvy, with bleeding gums and wounds that would not heal, until they took lemons and limes: the missing piece was vitamin C. Who acts: sailors, gums, missing piece. 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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 (sailors, gums, missing piece), 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:2 # text = Long ago sailors on months-long voyages got scurvy, with bleeding gums and wounds that would not heal, until they took lemons and limes: the missing piece was vitamin C. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 voyages voyage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 scurvy scurvy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 with with SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 bleeding bleed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 25 lemons lemon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 limes lime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 C. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ ``` ## 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 | **get** | past | sailors on months long voyages | scurvy | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus | | 2 | **bleed** | gerund | sailors on months long voyages *not said here* | gums and wounds | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gum=Source | | 3 | **not** **heal** | would | gums and wounds | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | sailors *= sailor* | lemons and limes | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemon=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | the missing piece | vitamin C. | | | | | tree rules | 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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