--- title: The story that carrots let British pilots see in the dark was spread… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: The story that carrots let British pilots see in the dark was spread in the Second World War, partly to hide the use of radar, machines that found enemy planes with radio waves. Who acts: carrots, story, use. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # What vitamins do, sentence 6 The story that carrots let British pilots see in the dark was spread in the Second World War, partly to hide the use of radar, machines that found enemy planes with radio waves. **Who acts:** carrots, story, use · **What happens:** let, see, spread, hide, find, use · **To what, where:** story, dark, Second World War, use, enemy planes, radar 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, story, use), 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:6 # text = The story that carrots let British pilots see in the dark was spread in the Second World War, partly to hide the use of radar, machines that found enemy planes with radio waves. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj 4 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pilots pilot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 Second Second PROPN NNP _ 18 compound _ _ 17 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 partly partly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 radar radar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 31 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **let** | infinitive | carrots | the story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | the story *not said here* | | | the dark | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **spread** | past · passive | | the story | | the Second World War | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in war=Destination | | 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | the use of radar and machines | | | | partly *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient | | 5 | **find** | past | the use of radar and machines | enemy planes | | | | with radio waves | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Topic | | 6 | **use** | | | radar | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/5/) - next →: [What vitamins do, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/)