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title: Eating huge amounts of carrots really can turn the skin slightly ora… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics
description: Eating huge amounts of carrots really can turn the skin slightly orange; it is called carotenaemia, it is harmless and it fades. Who acts: Eating, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 11

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Eating huge amounts of carrots really can turn the skin slightly orange; it is called carotenaemia, it is harmless and it fades.

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**Who acts:** Eating, skin · **What happens:** eat, turn, call, be, fade, amount · **To what, where:** huge amounts, skin, carrots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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 (Eating, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:11
# text = Eating huge amounts of carrots really can turn the skin slightly orange; it is called carotenaemia, it is harmless and it fades.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	carotenaemia	carotenaemia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **eat** | gerund |  | huge amounts of carrots |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | can | Eating | the skin |  |  |  | orange *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | skin |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | skin |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fade** | present | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **amount** |  |  | carrots |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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**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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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