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title: The liver, weighing about 1.5 kilograms, is the biggest organ inside… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: The liver, weighing about 1.5 kilograms, is the biggest organ inside the body, does over 500 jobs such as cleaning the blood and storing energy, and can grow back from a part left behind. Who acts: liver, 500 jobs. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biol
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 19

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The liver, weighing about 1.5 kilograms, is the biggest organ inside the body, does over 500 jobs such as cleaning the blood and storing energy, and can grow back from a part left behind.

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**Who acts:** liver, 500 jobs · **What happens:** weigh, be, do over, clean, store, grow back · **To what, where:** 1.5 kilograms, biggest organ, body, 500 jobs, blood, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» 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 (liver, 500 jobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:19
# text = The liver, weighing about 1.5 kilograms, is the biggest organ inside the body, does over 500 jobs such as cleaning the blood and storing energy, and can grow back from a part left behind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	weighing	weigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **weigh** | gerund | the liver *not said here* | 1.5 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the liver | the biggest organ |  | the body |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do over** | present | the liver *not said here* | 500 jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **clean** | gerund | 500 jobs *not said here* | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 5 | **store** | gerund | 500 jobs *not said here* | energy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 6 | **grow back** | can | 500 jobs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from a part | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from part=Patient |
| 7 | **leave behind** | participle |  | a part *not said here* |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:19`.

**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 ×1, 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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