--- title: Giving blood is a gift living grown-ups can give: Sam's mum feels a… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics description: Giving blood is a gift living grown-ups can give: Sam's mum feels a quick pinch from the needle, and her blood can help people after accidents, in operations and with some illnesses. Who acts: Giving, living grown ups, mum, blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giving, living grown ups, mum, 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:3 # text = Giving blood is a gift living grown-ups can give: Sam's mum feels a quick pinch from the needle, and her blood can help people after accidents, in operations and with some 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): no change 1 Giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 7 grown grown ADJ JJ _ 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 operations operation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **give** | gerund | | blood | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Giving | a gift | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | can | living grown ups | a gift *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | Sam's mum | a quick pinch | | the needle | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme | | 6 | **help** | can | mum's blood | | people | operations and some illnesses | after accidents | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | 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:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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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