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title: Stretched out, the DNA in one human cell is about two metres long, p… — DNA simply: the recipe in every cell · tree and pragmatics
description: Stretched out, the DNA in one human cell is about two metres long, packed tightly into the tiny nucleus; all the DNA in a body would reach the Sun and back many times. Who acts: DNA. A sentence of the lesson «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 7

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Stretched out, the DNA in one human cell is about two metres long, packed tightly into the tiny nucleus; all the DNA in a body would reach the Sun and back many times.

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**Who acts:** DNA · **What happens:** stretch out, be, pack, reach · **To what, where:** two metres, tiny nucleus, Sun

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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 (DNA), 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:7
# text = Stretched out, the DNA in one human cell is about two metres long, packed tightly into the tiny nucleus; all the DNA in a body would reach the Sun and back many times.
# 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 ×2
1	Stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	advcl	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
17	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the DNA  one human cell |  |  | two metres and many times |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pack** | participle | the DNA  one human cell *not said here* |  |  | the tiny nucleus |  | tightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nucleus=Destination |
| 4 | **reach** | would | all DNA in a body | the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sun=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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**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 ×2. **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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