--- title: The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist, in the middle of… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics description: The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist, in the middle of the chest tipped a little to the left, and it beats about 100,000 times a day. Who acts: heart, muscle. 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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 (heart, muscle), 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:5 # text = The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist, in the middle of the chest tipped a little to the left, and it beats about 100,000 times a day. # 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 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 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 tipped tip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | the heart | a muscle | | the middle of the chest | | about the size of your fist | tree rules | | 2 | **tip** | past | a muscle *not said here* | a little | | the left | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to left=Destination | | 3 | **beat about** | present | heart | | | | time | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/4/) - next →: [The heart and blood, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/)