--- title: You got half your DNA from your mum and half from your dad, mixed in… — DNA simply: the recipe in every cell · tree and pragmatics description: You got half your DNA from your mum and half from your dad, mixed in a new way, which is why you can have your mum's eyes and your dad's ears while your sister looks different. Who acts: You, sister. 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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 (You, sister), 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:3 # text = You got half your DNA from your mum and half from your dad, mixed in a new way, which is why you can have your mum's eyes and your dad's ears while your sister looks different. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 5 det:predet _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 8 conj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis 40 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | You | your DNA | | | | from your mum and half; from your dad | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dna=Theme from mum=Source | | 2 | **mix** | participle | You *not said here* | | | a new way | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | can | you | your mum's eyes and your dad's ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **look** | present | your sister | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.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): 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/). - ← previous: [DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/2/) - next →: [DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/)