--- title: The lub-dub sound is the heart's valves snapping shut: «lub» when th… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics description: The lub-dub sound is the heart's valves snapping shut: «lub» when the valves between the upper and lower chambers close, «dub» when the valves at the exits close. Who acts: dub sound, valves. A sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # The heart and blood, sentence 6 The lub-dub sound is the heart's valves snapping shut: «lub» when the valves between the upper and lower chambers close, «dub» when the valves at the exits close. **Who acts:** dub sound, valves · **What happens:** be, snap, close · **To what, where:** valves, shut, dub 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 (dub sound, valves), 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:6 # text = The lub-dub sound is the heart's valves snapping shut: «lub» when the valves between the upper and lower chambers close, «dub» when the valves at the exits close. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 lub lub NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dub dub NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 valves valve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 11 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 shut shut NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 « « X GW ExtPos=PROPN 12 appos _ _ 15 lub lub X NN _ 14 goeswith _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 valves valve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 20 between between ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 25 chambers chamber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 26 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 « « CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dub dub NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 valves valve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 exits exit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the dub sound | the heart's valves | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **snap** | gerund | the heart's valves *not said here* | shut | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shut=Theme | | 3 | **close** | present | the heart's valves | dub | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **close** | present | the valves at the exits | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:6`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The heart and blood, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/5/) - next →: [The heart and blood, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/)