--- title: The vitamin C idea was made famous by Linus Pauling, a great chemist… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics description: The vitamin C idea was made famous by Linus Pauling, a great chemist with two Nobel Prizes, who was wrong about this outside his own work: for most people, taking lots of vitamin C does not stop colds; studies suggest it may shorten them slightly for some people. 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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 (Linus, great chemist, taking, studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.lesson:12 # text = The vitamin C idea was made famous by Linus Pauling, a great chemist with two Nobel Prizes, who was wrong about this outside his own work: for most people, taking lots of vitamin C does not stop colds; studies suggest it may shorten them slightly for some people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 C c NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Linus Linus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 10 Pauling Pauling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chemist chemist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Prizes prize PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 outside outside ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 csubj _ _ 35 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 C c NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 42 colds cold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 shorten shorten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 ccomp _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 53 det _ _ 53 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | Linus | the C idea | | | | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | a great chemist with two Nobel Prizes | | | | | about this; outside idea's own work; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | gerund | | lots of vitamin C | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 4 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | taking | colds | | | | for most people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cold=Eventuality | | 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | studies | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **shorten** | may | cold | studies *= study* | | | | for some people; slightly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 7 | **work** | | idea | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:myths:004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.lesson:12`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Colds, coughs and the weather, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/11/) - next →: [Colds, coughs and the weather, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/)