--- title: Carrots contain beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A,… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Carrots contain beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for seeing in dim light; extra carrots do not give night vision. Who acts: Carrots, body, extra carrots. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # What vitamins do, sentence 5 Carrots contain beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for seeing in dim light; extra carrots do not give night vision. **Who acts:** Carrots, body, extra carrots · **What happens:** contain, turn, need, see, not give · **To what, where:** beta carotene, vitamin, dim light, night vision 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 (Carrots, body, extra carrots), 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:5 # text = Carrots contain beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for seeing in dim light; extra carrots do not give night vision. # 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 Carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 beta beta NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 carotene carotene NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 10 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 A A NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **contain** | present | Carrots | beta carotene | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot carotene=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | present | the body | beta carotene | | vitamin | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme into vitamin=Trajectory | | 3 | **need** | participle | | vitamin *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **see** | gerund | | | | dim light | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | extra carrots | night vision | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:021-what-vitamins-do.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What vitamins do, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/4/) - next →: [What vitamins do, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/)