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title: An earthworm has 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near its front end… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: An earthworm has 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near its front end that squeeze its red blood along, often called its 5 pairs of hearts; it has no lungs and breathes through its damp skin. Who acts: earthworm, 5 pairs, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, 
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 5

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An earthworm has 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near its front end that squeeze its red blood along, often called its 5 pairs of hearts; it has no lungs and breathes through its damp skin.

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**Who acts:** earthworm, 5 pairs, blood · **What happens:** have, squeeze, call, breathe · **To what, where:** 5 pairs, red blood, lungs, damp skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (earthworm, 5 pairs, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:5
# text = An earthworm has 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near its front end that squeeze its red blood along, often called its 5 pairs of hearts; it has no lungs and breathes through its damp skin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 041-counting-animals.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	muscular	muscular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a earthworm | 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near earthworm's front end |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient |
| 2 | **squeeze** | present | 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near earthworm's front end | earthworm's red blood |  |  |  | along *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | 5 pairs of simple muscular tubes near earthworm's front end *not said here* | blood's 5 pairs of hearts |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pair=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | present | blood | no lungs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Patient |
| 5 | **breathe** | present | blood *not said here* |  |  | blood's damp skin |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, 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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