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title: Long ago sailors without fresh fruit got sick with scurvy because th… — Healthy food, water and vitamins · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago sailors without fresh fruit got sick with scurvy because they lacked vitamin C. Who acts: sailors. A sentence of the lesson «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Healthy food, water and vitamins, sentence 19

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Long ago sailors without fresh fruit got sick with scurvy because they lacked vitamin C.

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**Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** get, lack · **To what, where:** vitamin C.

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world 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 (sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:036-healthy-food.lesson:19
# text = Long ago sailors without fresh fruit got sick with scurvy because they lacked vitamin C.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 036-healthy-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): R5-strong ×1
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lacked	lack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	C.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **get** | past | sailors without fresh fruit |  |  |  |  | ago, sick *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lack** | past | sailors *= sailor* | vitamin C. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:036-healthy-food.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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/).

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