Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 0

Sometimes when a person dies, parts of their body that are still healthy, like the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs or the clear front of the eye, can be given to sick people who need them: this is organ donation, and Lily's teacher calls it «a gift of life».

Who acts: person, parts, sick people, this, teacher · What happens: die, be, give, need, call, gift · To what, where: parts, sick people, organ donation, person, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the religion ethics 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 (person, parts, sick people, this), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	35 given	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dies	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 given	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 parts	punct
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 given	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parts	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 healthy	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 healthy	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 healthy	advmod
14	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parts	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heart	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 heart	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heart	det
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 healthy	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kidneys	punct
20	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heart	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 liver	punct
22	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heart	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lungs	punct
24	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heart	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 front	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 front	det
27	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 front	amod
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heart	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 eye	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eye	det
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 front	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 given	punct
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 given	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 given	aux:pass
35	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 people	case
37	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 given	obl
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 need	nsubj
40	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 people	acl:relcl
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 need	obj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 donation	punct
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 donation	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 donation	cop
45	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 donation	compound
46	donation	donation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 given	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 calls	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 calls	cc
49	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 teacher	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 Lily	case
51	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 calls	nsubj
52	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 donation	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 calls	obj
54	«	«	PUNCT	_	56 gift	punct
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 gift	det
56	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 calls	xcomp
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 life	case
58	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gift	nmod
59	»	»	PUNCT	_	56 gift	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 given	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	a person					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	parts of parts's body			still	like the heart and kidneys and liver and lungs or the clear front of the eye; healthy property	tree rules
3	give	can · passive		parts of parts's body	sick people		sometimes property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to people=Recipient
4	need	present	sick people	parts = part				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	is a	present	this	organ donation				tree rules
6	call	present	Lily's teacher	person				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	gift in a quote			life				nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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