--- title: The blood travels through tubes called blood vessels, so many of the… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics description: The blood travels through tubes called blood vessels, so many of them that laid end to end they would go more than twice around the Earth, and a drop sets off round the whole body and is back in about a minute. Who acts: blood, tubes, vessels, drop. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, tubes, vessels, drop), 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:2 # text = The blood travels through tubes called blood vessels, so many of them that laid end to end they would go more than twice around the Earth, and a drop sets off round the whole body and is back in about a minute. # 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 laid laid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 23 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 25 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 33 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 round round ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 about about ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | the blood | | | tubes | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tube=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** | participle | tubes *not said here* | blood vessels | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vessel=Recipient | | 3 | **laid** | participle | | end | | | to end | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | would | vessels *= vessel* | | | | | than the Earth; twice *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **set off** | present | a drop | | | the whole body | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round body=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | present | a drop *not said here* | | | | | in a minute; about *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:2`. **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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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