--- title: Blood is never blue: it is bright red when it is full of oxygen and… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics description: Blood is never blue: it is bright red when it is full of oxygen and darker red when it has given some away; veins only look blue because of the way skin lets light through. Who acts: Blood, veins, skin. 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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, veins, skin), 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:3 # text = Blood is never blue: it is bright red when it is full of oxygen and darker red when it has given some away; veins only look blue because of the way skin lets light through. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 18 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 flat _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 24 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 veins vein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound 34 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound 35 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 36 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 through through ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Blood | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | blood | | | | | bright *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | blood | | | | | of oxygen; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | blood *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give away** | present · perfect | blood | some | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent some=Theme | | 6 | **look** | present | veins | the way | | | | because light; blue, through *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **let** | present | skin | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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