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title: William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics
description: William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the body in a circle. Who acts: William, heart. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The age of science, sentence 11

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William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the body in a circle.

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**Who acts:** William, heart · **What happens:** show, pump · **To what, where:** 1628, blood, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (William, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:11
# text = William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the body in a circle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 029-the-age-of-science.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	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1628	1628	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pumps	pump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | past | William |  |  | 1628 |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pump** | present | the heart | blood |  | the body |  | in a circle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme around body=Destination |

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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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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