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title: Your heart is about the size of your own fist and has four rooms cal… — The human body deeper: the heart and blood in am… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your heart is about the size of your own fist and has four rooms called chambers; the «lub-dub» sound is its valves snapping shut. Who acts: heart, four rooms, dub sound, valves. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers, sentence 7

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Your heart is about the size of your own fist and has four rooms called chambers; the «lub-dub» sound is its valves snapping shut.

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**Who acts:** heart, four rooms, dub sound, valves · **What happens:** be, have, call, snap · **To what, where:** size, four rooms, chambers, valves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, four rooms, dub sound, valves), 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:7
# text = Your heart is about the size of your own fist and has four rooms called chambers; the «lub-dub» sound is its valves snapping shut.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	xcomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
20	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	valves	valve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
28	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your heart | the size |  |  |  | of your own fist; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Your heart *not said here* | four rooms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle | four rooms *not said here* | chambers |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the dub sound | heart's valves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **snap** | gerund | heart's valves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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