The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 3
Blood is never blue: it is bright red when it is full of oxygen and darker red when it has given some away; veins only look blue because of the way skin lets light through.
Who acts: Blood, veins, skin · What happens: not be, be, give away, look, let · To what, where: some, way
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, veins, skin), 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 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blue | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blue | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 blue | advmod |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 bright | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bright | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bright | cop |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blue | conj |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | amod |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 full | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 full | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oxygen | case |
| 15 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 darker | cc |
| 17 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 full | conj |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 darker | flat |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 given | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 darker | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 given | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 given | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 26 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 look | nsubj |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 look | advmod |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blue | conj |
| 29 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 look | xcomp |
| 30 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 36 light | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 because | fixed |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 34 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lets | nsubj |
| 35 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 36 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 37 | through | through | ADV | _ | 28 look | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Blood | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | blood | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | blood | of oxygen; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | blood not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | give away | present · perfect | blood | some | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 6 | look | present | veins | the way | because light; blue, through property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | let | present | skin | the way not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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