--- title: An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and healthy adults can give ab… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics description: An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and healthy adults can give about half a litre at a blood donation to help people after accidents, operations and some illnesses. Who acts: adult, healthy adults. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adult, healthy adults), 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:14 # text = An adult has about 5 litres of blood, and healthy adults can give about half a litre at a blood donation to help people after accidents, operations and some illnesses. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 18 det:predet _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 litre litre NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 donation donation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 operations operation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a adult | 5 litres of blood | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient | | 2 | **give** | can | healthy adults | half litre | | a blood donation | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent litre=Theme at donation=Asset | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | healthy adults *not said here* | | people | | after accidents and operations and some illnesses | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | 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. **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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [The heart and blood, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/13/) - next →: [The heart and blood, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/)