--- title: UVB rays in sunlight help the skin make vitamin D, which helps the b… — Sunshine, vitamin D and water · tree and pragmatics description: UVB rays in sunlight help the skin make vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium for bones, and you don't need to burn to make it. Who acts: UVB rays, skin, D, body. 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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 (UVB rays, skin, D, body), 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:4 # text = UVB rays in sunlight help the skin make vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium for bones, and you don't need to burn to make it. # 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 UVB uvb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 D D PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 absorb absorb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 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 | **help** | present | UVB rays in sunlight | the skin | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | the skin *not said here* | vitamin | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vitamin=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | D | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **absorb** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | calcium | | | | for bones | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal calcium=Theme | | 5 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **burn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | body | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.lesson:4`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sunshine, vitamin D and water, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/23-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water/3/) - next →: [Sunshine, vitamin D and water, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/23-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/23-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water/)