--- title: Rickets is a bone disease caused by lack of vitamin D, making bones… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics description: Rickets is a bone disease caused by lack of vitamin D, making bones soft and legs bowed; it was common in smoky cities and is still occasionally seen. Who acts: Rickets. 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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 (Rickets), 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:7 # text = Rickets is a bone disease caused by lack of vitamin D, making bones soft and legs bowed; it was common in smoky cities and is still occasionally seen. # 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 ×3 1 Rickets rickets NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:xcomp 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 smoky smoky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 occasionally occasionally ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Rickets | a bone disease | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | participle | | a bone disease *not said here* | | | | by lack vitamin D | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **make** | gerund | | bones | | | | soft *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bone=Beneficiary leg=Product | | 4 | **bow** | participle | | legs *not said here* | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | Rickets | | | smoky cities | | common *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | present · passive | Rickets *not said here* | | | | still | occasionally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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: [Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/6/) - next →: [Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/)