--- title: A hundred years ago many city children had rickets: soft bones and b… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics description: A hundred years ago many city children had rickets: soft bones and bowed legs, because smoke hid the sun and their skin could not make vitamin D, and a spoon of cod-liver oil really helped them. Who acts: many city children, smoke, skin, spoon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many city children, smoke, skin, spoon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:022-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil.lesson:0 # text = A hundred years ago many city children had rickets: soft bones and bowed legs, because smoke hid the sun and their skin could not make vitamin D, and a spoon of cod-liver oil really helped them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 022-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 rickets ricket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 cod cod NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 really really ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **have** | past | many city children | rickets | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ricket=Patient | | 2 | **bow** | participle | | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hide** | past | smoke | the sun | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | | 4 | **not** **make** | could | children's skin | vitamin D | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset d=Product | | 5 | **help** | past | a spoon of liver oil | children *= child* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:022-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/15/) - next →: [Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/)