The heart and blood, sentence 8

Blood is a yellowish liquid called plasma carrying red cells, white cells and platelets; a drop the size of a pinhead holds about 5 million red blood cells.

Who acts: Blood, yellowish liquid, plasma, size · What happens: be, call, carry, hold · To what, where: yellowish liquid, plasma, red cells, million red blood cells · 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 (Blood, yellowish liquid, plasma, size), 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	5 liquid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 liquid	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 liquid	det
4	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 liquid	amod
5	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 liquid	acl
7	plasma	plasma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 plasma	acl
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cells	amod
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carrying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cells	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cells	amod
13	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cells	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 platelets	cc
15	platelets	platelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cells	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 drop	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 drop	det
18	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liquid	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 size	det
20	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 holds	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 pinhead	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pinhead	det
23	pinhead	pinhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 size	nmod
24	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drop	acl:relcl
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 5	advmod
26	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 million	compound
27	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 cells	nummod
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cells	amod
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cells	compound
30	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 holds	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 liquid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Blood	a yellowish liquid and a drop	tree rules
2	call	participle	a yellowish liquid and a drop not said here	plasma	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	gerund	plasma not said here	red cells and white cells and platelets	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme
4	hold	present	the size of a pinhead	million red blood cells	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=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: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): no change. 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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