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title: Your heart is a muscle about the size of your own fist, and it never… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your heart is a muscle about the size of your own fist, and it never takes a day off: it squeezes blood out with every beat, more than 100,000 times a day. Who acts: heart, it. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 0

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Your heart is a muscle about the size of your own fist, and it never takes a day off: it squeezes blood out with every beat, more than 100,000 times a day.

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**Who acts:** heart, it · **What happens:** be, not take off, squeeze out · **To what, where:** muscle, blood

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» 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 (heart, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood.lesson:0
# text = Your heart is a muscle about the size of your own fist, and it never takes a day off: it squeezes blood out with every beat, more than 100,000 times a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl:unmarked
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your heart | a muscle |  |  |  | about the size of your own fist | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **take off** | present | it |  |  |  | day |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squeeze out** | present | heart | blood |  |  | time | with every beat | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blood=Theme with beat=Instrument |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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