The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 16
A blue whale's heart weighs about 180 kilograms and can beat as slowly as two times a minute on a deep dive; small animals have fast hearts and big animals slow ones.
Who acts: heart, small animals · What happens: weigh, beat, have · To what, where: 180 kilograms, fast hearts
This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» 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 (heart, small animals), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 whale | case |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weighs | nsubj |
| 6 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 180 | advmod |
| 8 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 kilograms | nummod |
| 9 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weighs | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beat | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 beat | aux |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 weighs | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 slowly | advmod |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 beat | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 times | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slowly | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minute | det |
| 19 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 times | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 dive | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dive | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dive | amod |
| 23 | dive | dive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 minute | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animals | amod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 minute | conj |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hearts | amod |
| 29 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 animals | cc |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 animals | amod |
| 32 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hearts | conj |
| 33 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ones | amod |
| 34 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hearts | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weighs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | a blue whale's heart | 180 kilograms | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | ||||
| 2 | beat | can | a blue whale's heart not said here | slowly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | small animals | fast hearts and big animals and slow ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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:261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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