--- title: Iron is needed to make red blood cells, and too little causes anaemi… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics description: Iron is needed to make red blood cells, and too little causes anaemia, which makes people tired and pale; a blood test can check iron levels. Who acts: little, anaemia, blood test. A sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # What vitamins do, sentence 9 Iron is needed to make red blood cells, and too little causes anaemia, which makes people tired and pale; a blood test can check iron levels. **Who acts:** little, anaemia, blood test · **What happens:** need, make, cause, check · **To what, where:** Iron, red blood cells, anaemia, people, iron levels 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 (little, anaemia, blood test), 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:9 # text = Iron is needed to make red blood cells, and too little causes anaemia, which makes people tired and pale; a blood test can check iron levels. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:_ 13 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 anaemia anaemia NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 28 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 levels level NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present · passive | | Iron | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | red blood cells | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product | | 3 | **cause** | present | little | anaemia | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anaemia=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | anaemia | people | | | | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 5 | **check** | can | a blood test | iron levels | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/8/) - next →: [What vitamins do, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/)