Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 2
That is why you breathe faster and your heart beats faster: to bring oxygen in and carry the waste out faster.
Who acts: you, heart · What happens: breathe, beat, bring in, carry out · To what, where: oxygen, waste
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 (you, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 breathe | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 breathe | nsubj |
| 5 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | ccomp |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 breathe | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beats | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beats | nsubj |
| 10 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathe | conj |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 beats | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bring | mark |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beats | advcl |
| 15 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bring | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carry | cc |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bring | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waste | det |
| 20 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 carry | compound:prt |
| 22 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 carry | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | you | fast property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | your heart | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring in | to-infinitive | your heart not said here | oxygen | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oxygen=Asset | ||||
| 4 | carry out | infinitive | your heart not said here | the waste | fast property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Eventuality |
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:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:2.
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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