Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 18

Iron in red blood cells helps carry oxygen around the body; meat, beans and lentils are good sources, and spinach is not as iron-rich as the old story says.

Who acts: Iron, beans, spinach, old story · What happens: help, carry, be, not be, say · To what, where: oxygen, body, good sources · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry 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 (Iron, beans, spinach, old story), 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	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helps	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 cells	case
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cells	amod
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cells	compound
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Iron	nmod
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helps	xcomp
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 meat	punct
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beans	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beans	punct
15	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sources	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lentils	cc
17	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beans	conj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sources	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sources	amod
20	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 helps	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rich	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rich	cc
23	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rich	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rich	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 rich	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 rich	mark
27	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rich	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 iron	punct
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 helps	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 says	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 story	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 story	amod
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 says	nsubj
34	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rich	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 helps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	present	Iron in red blood cells				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	carry	infinitive	Iron in red blood cells not said here	oxygen	the body		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme
3	is a	present	beans and meat and lentils	good sources			tree rules
4	not is	present	spinach			rich property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	the old story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:18.

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): 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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