Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 6
Organ donation means giving healthy organs, such as the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs or corneas (the clear front of the eye), to people who need them, usually after the donor has died.
Who acts: Organ donation, people, donor · What happens: mean, give, need, die · To what, where: healthy organs, people
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 (Organ donation, people, donor), 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 | Organ | Organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 donation | compound |
| 2 | donation | donation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 organs | amod |
| 6 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giving | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 organs | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 heart | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 organs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kidneys | punct |
| 13 | kidneys | kidney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heart | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 liver | punct |
| 15 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lungs | punct |
| 17 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heart | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 corneas | cc |
| 19 | corneas | cornea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lungs | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 front | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 front | det |
| 22 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 front | amod |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eye | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 front | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 people | punct |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giving | obl |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 need | nsubj |
| 32 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 people | acl:relcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 need | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 died | punct |
| 35 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 40 died | advmod |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 40 died | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 donor | det |
| 38 | donor | donor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 died | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 died | aux |
| 40 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 giving | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Organ donation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | gerund | Organ donation not said here | healthy organs | people | such the heart the clear front of the eye and kidneys and liver and lungs or corneas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent organ=Theme to people=Recipient | ||
| 3 | need | present | people | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present · perfect | the donor | usually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:6.
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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