The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 16
Red blood cells carry oxygen; white blood cells fight germs.
Who acts: Red blood cells, white blood cells · What happens: carry, fight · To what, where: oxygen, germs
This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart, blood and breathing» of the world 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 (Red blood cells, white blood cells), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cells | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cells | compound |
| 3 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fight | punct |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cells | amod |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cells | compound |
| 9 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fight | nsubj |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | parataxis |
| 11 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fight | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Red blood cells | oxygen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | present | white blood cells | germs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-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:world:032-heart-blood-breathing.lesson:16.
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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