The heart and blood, sentence 9
Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.
Who acts: Red blood cells, white cells, platelets · What happens: carry, use, fight, help, stop · To what, where: oxygen, iron rich haemoglobin, germs, bleeding
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 (Red blood cells, white cells, platelets), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cells | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cells | compound |
| 3 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 carry | advcl |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 haemoglobin | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 haemoglobin | punct |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 haemoglobin | amod |
| 10 | haemoglobin | haemoglobin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 using | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cells | amod |
| 13 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | conj |
| 15 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 18 | platelets | platelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | conj |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stop | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | 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 | carry | present | Red blood cells | oxygen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | Red blood cells not said here | iron rich haemoglobin | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haemoglobin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | present | white cells | germs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | present | platelets | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | infinitive | platelets not said here | bleeding | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality |
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:9.
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): R7-rel-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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