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title: Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet (UV) rays: a little UVB on yo… — Sunshine, vitamin D and water · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet (UV) rays: a little UVB on your skin helps it make vitamin D for strong bones, but too much burns the skin and damages it for life. Who acts: Sunlight, little UVB, much. A sentence of the lesson «Sunshine, vitamin D and water» of the medicine course of Mova's p
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# Sunshine, vitamin D and water, sentence 0

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Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet (UV) rays: a little UVB on your skin helps it make vitamin D for strong bones, but too much burns the skin and damages it for life.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight, little UVB, much · **What happens:** carry, help, make, burn, damage · **To what, where:** invisible ultraviolet UV rays, Sunlight, vitamin D, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunshine, vitamin D and water» 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 (Sunlight, little UVB, much), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.lesson:0
# text = Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet (UV) rays: a little UVB on your skin helps it make vitamin D for strong bones, but too much burns the skin and damages it for life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	UVB	uvb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry** | present | Sunlight | invisible ultraviolet UV rays |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | a little UVB on your skin | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Sunlight *not said here* | vitamin D |  |  |  | for strong bones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent d=Product for bone=Asset |
| 4 | **burn** | present | much | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 5 | **damage** | present | much *not said here* | Sunlight |  |  |  | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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, R7-rel-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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