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title: Giving blood feels like a quick pinch and does not hurt much, and th… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving blood feels like a quick pinch and does not hurt much, and the body soon makes new blood to replace it; the blood helps people after accidents, in operations and with illnesses. Who acts: Giving, body, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the rel
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# Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 10

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Giving blood feels like a quick pinch and does not hurt much, and the body soon makes new blood to replace it; the blood helps people after accidents, in operations and with illnesses.

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**Who acts:** Giving, body, blood · **What happens:** give, feel, not hurt, make, replace, help · **To what, where:** blood, new blood, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the religion ethics 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 (Giving, body, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:10
# text = Giving blood feels like a quick pinch and does not hurt much, and the body soon makes new blood to replace it; the blood helps people after accidents, in operations and with illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | blood |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Giving |  |  |  |  | like a quick pinch | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like pinch=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | Giving *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | present | the body | new blood |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product |
| 5 | **replace** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **help** | present | the blood |  | people |  | after accidents and operations and illnesses |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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