--- title: Blood is a yellowish liquid called plasma carrying red cells, white… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics description: Blood is a yellowish liquid called plasma carrying red cells, white cells and platelets; a drop the size of a pinhead holds about 5 million red blood cells. Who acts: Blood, yellowish liquid, plasma, size. 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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 (Blood, yellowish liquid, plasma, size), 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:8 # text = Blood is a yellowish liquid called plasma carrying red cells, white cells and platelets; a drop the size of a pinhead holds about 5 million red blood cells. # 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): no change 1 Blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 yellowish yellowish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 plasma plasma NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 platelets platelet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pinhead pinhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 27 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | Blood | a yellowish liquid and a drop | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | a yellowish liquid and a drop *not said here* | plasma | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | plasma *not said here* | red cells and white cells and platelets | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | present | the size of a pinhead | million red blood cells | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=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. 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