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title: Second, the warm blood going down its legs passes right next to the… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics
description: Second, the warm blood going down its legs passes right next to the cold blood coming back up, and hands over its heat, so the feet stay cold and lose little heat while the body stays warm. Who acts: warm blood, cold blood, feet, body. A sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» of the bi
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# Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 2

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Second, the warm blood going down its legs passes right next to the cold blood coming back up, and hands over its heat, so the feet stay cold and lose little heat while the body stays warm.

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**Who acts:** warm blood, cold blood, feet, body, blood · **What happens:** go down, pass, come back, hand over, stay, lose · **To what, where:** legs, cold blood, heat, little heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» of the biology 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 (warm blood, cold blood, feet, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:2
# text = Second, the warm blood going down its legs passes right next to the cold blood coming back up, and hands over its heat, so the feet stay cold and lose little heat while the body stays warm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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	Second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	over	over	PART	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **go down** | gerund | the warm blood *not said here* | blood's legs |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient leg=Extent |
| 2 | **pass** | present | the warm blood |  |  | the cold blood |  | next, second *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to blood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come back** | gerund | the cold blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand over** | present | the warm blood *not said here* | blood's heat |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | present | the feet |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | present | the feet *not said here* | little heat |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 7 | **stay** | present | the body |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **heat** |  | blood |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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