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title: Vitamin C helps wounds heal and keeps gums and skin healthy, and sai… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Vitamin C helps wounds heal and keeps gums and skin healthy, and sailors once got scurvy from lacking it. Who acts: Vitamin, wounds, sailors. 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 7

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Vitamin C helps wounds heal and keeps gums and skin healthy, and sailors once got scurvy from lacking it.

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**Who acts:** Vitamin, wounds, sailors · **What happens:** help, heal, keep, get, lack · **To what, where:** gums, scurvy

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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 (Vitamin, wounds, sailors), 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:7
# text = Vitamin C helps wounds heal and keeps gums and skin healthy, and sailors once got scurvy from lacking it.
# 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	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Vitamin |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **heal** | infinitive | wounds |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | present | Vitamin *not said here* | gums and skin |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past | sailors | scurvy |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lack** | gerund | sailors *not said here* | scurvy |  |  |  |  | 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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