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title: Very fussy eaters may miss some nutrients, so a doctor may suggest a… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: Very fussy eaters may miss some nutrients, so a doctor may suggest a multivitamin while the family widens the diet; fussy eating usually improves with age. Who acts: fussy eaters, doctor, family, fussy eating. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» of the medicine course of Mova'
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# Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, sentence 13

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Very fussy eaters may miss some nutrients, so a doctor may suggest a multivitamin while the family widens the diet; fussy eating usually improves with age.

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**Who acts:** fussy eaters, doctor, family, fussy eating · **What happens:** miss, suggest, widen, improve · **To what, where:** nutrients, multivitamin, diet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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 (fussy eaters, doctor, family, fussy eating), 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:13
# text = Very fussy eaters may miss some nutrients, so a doctor may suggest a multivitamin while the family widens the diet; fussy eating usually improves with age.
# 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): no change
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fussy	fussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	multivitamin	multivitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	widens	widen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	fussy	fussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eating	eat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	improves	improve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **miss** | may | fussy eaters | some nutrients |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nutrient=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | may | a doctor | a multivitamin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent multivitamin=Topic |
| 3 | **widen** | present | the family | the diet |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent diet=Patient |
| 4 | **improve** | present | fussy eating |  |  |  | with age | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument |

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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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