The heart and blood, sentence 1
Each beat squeezes blood out through tubes called arteries to every part of you, then the blood comes back through veins, round and round in a loop, carrying oxygen and food and taking waste away.
Who acts: beat, tubes, blood · What happens: squeeze out, call, come back, carry, take away · To what, where: blood, tubes, arteries, veins, oxygen, waste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» 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 (beat, tubes, blood), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 beat | det |
| 2 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 squeezes | compound:prt |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 tubes | case |
| 7 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tubes | acl |
| 9 | arteries | artery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arteries | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 comes | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 squeezes | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 veins | case |
| 22 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 comes | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 round | punct |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 squeezes | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 round | cc |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 24 round | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 loop | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 loop | det |
| 29 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 round | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carrying | punct |
| 31 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 comes | advcl |
| 32 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carrying | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 food | cc |
| 34 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 oxygen | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 taking | cc |
| 36 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 carrying | conj |
| 37 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taking | obj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 taking | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezes | 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 | squeeze out | present | each beat | blood | tubes | round property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blood=Theme through tube=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | call | participle | tubes not said here | arteries to every part of you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | the blood | veins | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through vein=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the blood not said here | oxygen and food | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take away | gerund | the blood not said here | waste | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=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:065-the-heart-and-blood.lesson:1.
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 ×3. 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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