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title: The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood a… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood around the body about 100000 times a day, and blood carries oxygen and food to every cell. Who acts: heart, fist, blood. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology course of 
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# The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 9

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The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood around the body about 100000 times a day, and blood carries oxygen and food to every cell.

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**Who acts:** heart, fist, blood · **What happens:** be, pump, carry · **To what, where:** muscle, blood, body, oxygen, cell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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, fist, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:9
# text = The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood around the body about 100000 times a day, and blood carries oxygen and food to every cell.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pumps	pump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	100000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the heart | a muscle |  |  |  | about the size of your fist | tree rules |
| 2 | **pump** | present | your fist | blood |  | the body | time |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme around body=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | present | blood | oxygen and food |  | every cell |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme to cell=Destination |

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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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:9`.

**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.

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

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