--- title: Blood is always red: darker red when it carries less oxygen, bright… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: Blood is always red: darker red when it carries less oxygen, bright red when it carries more; it is never blue inside the body. Who acts: Blood. A sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/16/) [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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/) / 16 # Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 16 Blood is always red: darker red when it carries less oxygen, bright red when it carries more; it is never blue inside the body. **Who acts:** Blood · **What happens:** be, carry, not be · **To what, where:** less oxygen, more, body This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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 (Blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:16 # text = Blood is always red: darker red when it carries less oxygen, bright red when it carries more; it is never blue inside the body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 028-colour-in-nature.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 ×2 1 Blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 inside inside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Blood | | | | | always, red *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Blood *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | present | Blood | less oxygen | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | present | Blood | more | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | Blood | | | the body | | blue *property* | tree rules | 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:16`. **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 ×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: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/15/) - next →: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/)