The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 8
In the lungs oxygen passes from the air into the blood; millions of tiny air bags give a huge surface for it to pass through.
Who acts: oxygen, millions · What happens: pass, give, pass through · To what, where: lungs, huge surface
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 (oxygen, millions), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 lungs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lungs | det |
| 3 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passes | obl |
| 4 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | parataxis |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blood | det |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 13 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 give | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bags | case |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bags | amod |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bags | compound |
| 17 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 millions | nmod |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 surface | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surface | amod |
| 21 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pass | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 surface | acl |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 pass | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | oxygen | the lungs | from the air; into the blood | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from air=Initial_Location into blood=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | present | millions of tiny air bags | a huge surface | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass through | to-infinitive | oxygen | a huge surface not said here | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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): R6-punct-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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