The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 4
Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins bring it back, and tiny capillaries join them inside every part of the body.
Who acts: Arteries, veins, tiny capillaries · What happens: carry away, bring back, join · To what, where: blood, heart
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 (Arteries, veins, tiny capillaries), 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 | Arteries | artery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 carry | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 join | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 join | cc |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 capillaries | amod |
| 16 | capillaries | capillary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 join | nsubj |
| 17 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 join | obj |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 join | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 part | det |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 join | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 body | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | 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 | carry away | present | Arteries | blood | the heart | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from heart=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bring back | present | veins | heart | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | present | tiny capillaries | blood | every part of the body obl; inside property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:world:032-heart-blood-breathing.lesson:4.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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