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title: Put your hand flat on your chest and you feel it: thump, thump, your… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics
description: Put your hand flat on your chest and you feel it: thump, thump, your heart, a muscle about the size of your fist that never stops working from before you are born. Who acts: you, fist. A sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The heart and blood, sentence 0

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Put your hand flat on your chest and you feel it: thump, thump, your heart, a muscle about the size of your fist that never stops working from before you are born.

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**Who acts:** you, fist · **What happens:** put, feel, not stop, work, bear · **To what, where:** hand, chest, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» 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 (you, fist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:065-the-heart-and-blood.lesson:0
# text = Put your hand flat on your chest and you feel it: thump, thump, your heart, a muscle about the size of your fist that never stops working from before you are born.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 065-the-heart-and-blood.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hand |  | your chest |  | flat *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on chest=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | present | you | hand |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | present | your fist |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | your fist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:065-the-heart-and-blood.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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