The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 9
We breathe out carbon dioxide, a waste gas made by our cells.
Who acts: We · What happens: breathe out, make · To what, where: carbon dioxide, waste gas
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 breathe | compound:prt |
| 4 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dioxide | compound |
| 5 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gas | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gas | det |
| 8 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gas | compound |
| 9 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dioxide | appos |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gas | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 cells | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cells | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe out | present | We | carbon dioxide | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a waste gas not said here | by our cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:9.
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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