The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 5
So blood is like a delivery service: it picks up oxygen in the lungs and food from the gut, drops them off at every cell, and carries the waste away.
Who acts: blood, heart · What happens: be, pick up, drop off, carry away · To what, where: oxygen, lungs, blood, cell, waste
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 (blood, heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 service | advmod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 service | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 service | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 service | det |
| 6 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 service | compound |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 picks | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 picks | nsubj |
| 10 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 service | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picks | compound:prt |
| 12 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picks | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lungs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lungs | det |
| 15 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 oxygen | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 food | cc |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lungs | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 gut | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gut | det |
| 20 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lungs | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drops | punct |
| 22 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 picks | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drops | obj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 drops | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 cell | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 cell | det |
| 27 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drops | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 carries | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carries | cc |
| 30 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 picks | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 waste | det |
| 32 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carries | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 carries | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 service | 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 | is | present | blood | like a delivery service | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | present | heart | oxygen | the lungs from the gut and food | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Topic | |||
| 3 | drop off | present | heart not said here | blood | every cell | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at cell=Destination | |||
| 4 | carry away | present | heart not said here | the waste | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Theme |
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:5.
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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