The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 8
An adult's blood vessels laid end to end would stretch roughly 100,000 kilometres, more than twice around the Earth; this is an estimate, and books give different numbers.
Who acts: blood vessels, this, books · What happens: lay, stretch, be, give · To what, where: end, 100,000 kilometres, estimate, different numbers
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 vessels, this, books), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adult | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vessels | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 adult | case |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vessels | compound |
| 5 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretch | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vessels | acl |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretch | aux |
| 11 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 13 100,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 kilometres | nummod |
| 14 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 more | punct |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 kilometres | appos |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 twice | case |
| 18 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 Earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Earth | det |
| 21 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 twice | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 estimate | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 estimate | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 estimate | cop |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 estimate | det |
| 26 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretch | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 give | cc |
| 29 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | nsubj |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretch | conj |
| 31 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 numbers | amod |
| 32 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | participle | a adult's blood vessels not said here | end to end | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stretch | would | a adult's blood vessels | 100,000 kilometres | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kilometre=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | a estimate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | present | books | different numbers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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:8.
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, 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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