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title: An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and one blood donation is abou… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and one blood donation is about half a litre, which the body soon makes again. Who acts: adult, one blood donation, body. 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 with
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# The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 12

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An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and one blood donation is about half a litre, which the body soon makes again.

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**Who acts:** adult, one blood donation, body · **What happens:** have, be, make · **To what, where:** 5 litres, litre

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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 (adult, one blood donation, body), 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:12
# text = An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and one blood donation is about half a litre, which the body soon makes again.
# 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): no change
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	donation	donation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | a adult | 5 litres of blood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one blood donation | half litre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the body | half litre |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |

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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.

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

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