--- title: Calcium builds bones and teeth, and vitamin D helps the body absorb… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Calcium builds bones and teeth, and vitamin D helps the body absorb it; milk, cheese, yoghurt, green vegetables, beans, tofu and fortified foods (with extra vitamins or minerals added) all contain calcium. Who acts: Calcium, vitamin D, body, milk. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the m --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # What vitamins do, sentence 8 Calcium builds bones and teeth, and vitamin D helps the body absorb it; milk, cheese, yoghurt, green vegetables, beans, tofu and fortified foods (with extra vitamins or minerals added) all contain calcium. **Who acts:** Calcium, vitamin D, body, milk · **What happens:** build, help, absorb, fortify, add, contain · **To what, where:** bones, body, extra vitamins, calcium 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 (Calcium, vitamin D, body, milk), 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:8 # text = Calcium builds bones and teeth, and vitamin D helps the body absorb it; milk, cheese, yoghurt, green vegetables, beans, tofu and fortified foods (with extra vitamins or minerals added) all contain calcium. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 absorb absorb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 yoghurt yoghurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 tofu tofu NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 fortified fortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 advmod _ _ 40 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 41 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Calcium | bones and teeth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bone=Product | | 2 | **help** | present | vitamin D | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **absorb** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | body | | | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal it=Theme | | 4 | **fortify** | participle | | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | | extra vitamins or minerals *not said here* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **contain** | present | milk and cheese and yoghurt and green vegetables and beans and tofu and fortified foods | calcium | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot calcium=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. 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