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title: Almost every cell in your body carries a copy of the same long recip… — DNA simply: the recipe in every cell · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost every cell in your body carries a copy of the same long recipe book, called DNA, and it is shaped like a twisted ladder. Who acts: cell, same long recipe book. A sentence of the lesson «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 0

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Almost every cell in your body carries a copy of the same long recipe book, called DNA, and it is shaped like a twisted ladder.

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**Who acts:** cell, same long recipe book · **What happens:** carry, call, shape, copy · **To what, where:** copy, DNA, cell, same long recipe book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» 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 (cell, same long recipe book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:0
# text = Almost every cell in your body carries a copy of the same long recipe book, called DNA, and it is shaped like a twisted ladder.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.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
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	recipe	recipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
18	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **carry** | present | every cell in your body | a copy of the same long recipe book |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the same long recipe book *not said here* | DNA |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shape** | present · passive |  | cell |  |  |  | like a twisted ladder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **copy** |  |  | the same long recipe book |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R5-strong ×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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