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title: Blood pressure is how hard the blood pushes on the walls of the bloo… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood pressure is how hard the blood pushes on the walls of the blood vessels; high blood pressure has no symptoms but strains the heart over years. Who acts: Blood pressure, blood, high blood pressure. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of 
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 15

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Blood pressure is how hard the blood pushes on the walls of the blood vessels; high blood pressure has no symptoms but strains the heart over years.

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**Who acts:** Blood pressure, blood, high blood pressure · **What happens:** be, push, have, strain · **To what, where:** symptoms, heart

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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 pressure, blood, high blood pressure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:15
# text = Blood pressure is how hard the blood pushes on the walls of the blood vessels; high blood pressure has no symptoms but strains the heart over years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	strains	strain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Blood pressure |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | present | the blood |  |  |  |  | on the walls of the blood vessels | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on wall=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | high blood pressure | no symptoms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symptom=Patient |
| 4 | **strain** | present | high blood pressure *not said here* | the heart |  |  | year |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heart=Source |

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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.

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**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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