Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 10
Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light.
Who acts: Blood, veins, skin · What happens: be, look, scatter · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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, veins, skin), 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 | 4 red | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 red | advmod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 bright | punct |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | conj |
| 7 | red | red | ADV | _ | 6 bright | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 oxygen | case |
| 9 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bright | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 darker | cc |
| 11 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 red | conj |
| 12 | red | red | ADV | _ | 11 darker | advmod |
| 13 | without | without | ADV | _ | 11 darker | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 15 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | parataxis |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | xcomp |
| 18 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 way | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 because | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scatters | nsubj |
| 23 | scatters | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | acl:relcl |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scatters | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 red | 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 | is | present | Blood | always, red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Blood not said here | with oxygen; red property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | Blood not said here | red, without property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | present | veins | because the way; blue property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | scatter | present | skin | light | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:10.
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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