Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 2
Second, the warm blood going down its legs passes right next to the cold blood coming back up, and hands over its heat, so the feet stay cold and lose little heat while the body stays warm.
Who acts: warm blood, cold blood, feet, body, blood · What happens: go down, pass, come back, hand over, stay, lose · To what, where: legs, cold blood, heat, little heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» of the biology 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 (warm blood, cold blood, feet, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 passes | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Second | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passes | nsubj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 blood | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 going | obj |
| 10 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 next | advmod |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 passes | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 blood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 blood | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blood | amod |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passes | obl |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 blood | acl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 up | advmod |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 coming | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hands | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hands | cc |
| 22 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 passes | conj |
| 23 | over | over | PART | _ | 22 hands | compound:prt |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hands | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 stay | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feet | det |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stay | nsubj |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 passes | conj |
| 31 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stay | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lose | cc |
| 33 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 stay | conj |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 heat | amod |
| 35 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lose | obj |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 stays | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 body | det |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stays | nsubj |
| 39 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 lose | advcl |
| 40 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 stays | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | gerund | the warm blood not said here | blood's legs | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient leg=Extent | |||
| 2 | pass | present | the warm blood | the cold blood | next, second property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blood=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come back | gerund | the cold blood not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hand over | present | the warm blood not said here | blood's heat | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | present | the feet | cold property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | present | the feet not said here | little heat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | stay | present | the body | warm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | heat | blood | nom heat «phenomenon 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, 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:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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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