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title: Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without;… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light. Who acts: Blood, veins, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 10

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Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light.

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**Who acts:** Blood, veins, skin · **What happens:** be, look, scatter · **To what, where:** light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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, veins, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:10
# text = Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	red	red	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
12	red	red	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	without	without	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	scatters	scatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Blood |  |  |  |  | always, red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with oxygen; red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | red, without *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present | veins |  |  |  |  | because the way; blue *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **scatter** | present | skin | light |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-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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