Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 3
Giving blood is a gift living grown-ups can give: Sam's mum feels a quick pinch from the needle, and her blood can help people after accidents, in operations and with some illnesses.
Who acts: Giving, living grown ups, mum, blood · What happens: give, be, live, feel, help · To what, where: blood, gift, quick pinch, needle, people, operations
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 (Giving, living grown ups, mum, blood), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gift | csubj |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ups | amod |
| 7 | grown | grown | ADJ | _ | 9 ups | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ups | punct |
| 9 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gift | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 feels | punct |
| 13 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Sam | case |
| 15 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feels | nsubj |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pinch | det |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pinch | amod |
| 19 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feels | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 needle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 needle | det |
| 22 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pinch | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 help | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 help | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 blood | nmod:poss |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 help | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 help | aux |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 feels | conj |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 help | obj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 accidents | case |
| 31 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 help | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 operations | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 operations | case |
| 34 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 help | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 illnesses | cc |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 illnesses | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 illnesses | det |
| 38 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 operations | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gift | 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 | give | gerund | blood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Giving | a gift | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | can | living grown ups | a gift not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | Sam's mum | a quick pinch | the needle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme | |||
| 6 | help | can | mum's blood | people | operations and some illnesses | after accidents | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
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:3.
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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