---
title: Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red after giv… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red after giving it away; veins only look blue because of how light passes through skin. Who acts: Blood, veins, light. A sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The heart and blood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/) / 10

# The heart and blood, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red after giving it away; veins only look blue because of how light passes through skin.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Blood, veins, light · **What happens:** be, give away, look, pass · **To what, where:** blood, skin

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Blood, veins, light), 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:10
# text = Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red after giving it away; veins only look blue because of how light passes through skin.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	red	red	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
11	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	red	red	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
18	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	mark	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Blood |  |  |  |  | always, red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give away** | gerund | Blood *not said here* | blood |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | veins |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pass** | present | light |  |  | skin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through skin=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The heart and blood, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/9/)
- next →: [The heart and blood, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/)

