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title: Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was us… — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets. Who acts: liver oil. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil, sentence 8

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Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets.

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**Who acts:** liver oil · **What happens:** contain, use, prevent · **To what, where:** omega 3 fats, past, rickets

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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 (liver oil), 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:8
# text = Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	_	4	compound	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	omega	omega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	fats	fat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl
24	rickets	ricket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **contain** | present | liver oil | omega 3 fats and vitamins |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fat=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive | liver oil *not said here* |  |  | the past |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | liver oil *not said here* | rickets |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ricket=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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**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, 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.

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