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title: Iron in red blood cells helps carry oxygen around the body; meat, be… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Iron in red blood cells helps carry oxygen around the body; meat, beans and lentils are good sources, and spinach is not as iron-rich as the old story says. Who acts: Iron, beans, spinach, old story. A sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry co
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# Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 18

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Iron in red blood cells helps carry oxygen around the body; meat, beans and lentils are good sources, and spinach is not as iron-rich as the old story says.

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**Who acts:** Iron, beans, spinach, old story · **What happens:** help, carry, be, not be, say · **To what, where:** oxygen, body, good sources · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry 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 (Iron, beans, spinach, old story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:18
# text = Iron in red blood cells helps carry oxygen around the body; meat, beans and lentils are good sources, and spinach is not as iron-rich as the old story says.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lentils	lentil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Iron in red blood cells |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | infinitive | Iron in red blood cells *not said here* | oxygen |  | the body |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | beans and meat and lentils | good sources |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | spinach |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the old story |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:18`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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