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title: A multivitamin can't make up for a poor diet, because food gives fib… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: A multivitamin can't make up for a poor diet, because food gives fibre, energy and many substances a pill does not contain. Who acts: multivitamin, food, pill. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, sentence 16

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A multivitamin can't make up for a poor diet, because food gives fibre, energy and many substances a pill does not contain.

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**Who acts:** multivitamin, food, pill · **What happens:** not make up, give, not contain · **To what, where:** fibre, many substances

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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 (multivitamin, food, pill), 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:16
# text = A multivitamin can't make up for a poor diet, because food gives fibre, energy and many substances a pill does not contain.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	multivitamin	multivitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pill	pill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make up** | can | a multivitamin |  |  |  |  | for a poor diet | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | food | fibre and energy and many substances |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **contain** | present · do-support | a pill | many substances *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot substance=Theme |

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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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**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:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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