The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 2
The blood travels through tubes called blood vessels, so many of them that laid end to end they would go more than twice around the Earth, and a drop sets off round the whole body and is back in about a minute.
Who acts: blood, tubes, vessels, drop · What happens: travel, call, laid, go, set off, be · To what, where: tubes, blood vessels, end, whole body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (blood, tubes, vessels, drop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blood | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travels | nsubj |
| 3 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 tubes | case |
| 5 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travels | obl |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tubes | acl |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vessels | compound |
| 8 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 end | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 travels | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 many | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 15 | laid | laid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 them | acl:relcl |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 many | ccomp |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 twice | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 Earth | case |
| 24 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 go | advmod |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 Earth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Earth | det |
| 27 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sets | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sets | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 drop | det |
| 31 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sets | nsubj |
| 32 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travels | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 sets | compound:prt |
| 34 | round | round | ADP | _ | 37 body | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 body | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 body | amod |
| 37 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sets | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 minute | cc |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 minute | cop |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 44 minute | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 minute | case |
| 42 | about | about | ADV | _ | 44 minute | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 minute | det |
| 44 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sets | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | the blood | tubes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tube=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | tubes not said here | blood vessels | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vessel=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | laid | participle | end | to end | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | would | vessels = vessel | than the Earth; twice property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set off | present | a drop | the whole body | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | is | present | a drop not said here | in a minute; about property | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×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.
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