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title: Blood has red cells that carry oxygen, white cells that fight germs,… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood has red cells that carry oxygen, white cells that fight germs, and platelets that help stop bleeding; one tiny drop holds millions of red cells. Who acts: Blood, red cells, white cells, platelets. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» of the b
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# The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 10

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Blood has red cells that carry oxygen, white cells that fight germs, and platelets that help stop bleeding; one tiny drop holds millions of red cells.

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**Who acts:** Blood, red cells, white cells, platelets, one tiny drop · **What happens:** have, carry, fight, help, stop, hold · **To what, where:** red cells, oxygen, germs, bleeding, millions

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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 (Blood, red cells, white cells, platelets), 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:10
# text = Blood has red cells that carry oxygen, white cells that fight germs, and platelets that help stop bleeding; one tiny drop holds millions of red cells.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	platelets	platelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Blood | red cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | present | red cells | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | present | white cells and platelets | germs |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **help** | present | platelets |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | infinitive | platelets *not said here* | bleeding |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hold** | present | one tiny drop | millions of red cells |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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