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title: One donor can save or improve the lives of several people; the NHS s… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics
description: One donor can save or improve the lives of several people; the NHS says up to nine. Who acts: One donor, NHS. A sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 7

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One donor can save or improve the lives of several people; the NHS says up to nine.

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**Who acts:** One donor, NHS · **What happens:** save, improve, say · **To what, where:** lives · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One donor, NHS), 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:7
# text = One donor can save or improve the lives of several people; the NHS says up to nine.
# 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	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	donor	donor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	NHS	NHS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **save** | can | One donor |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **improve** | infinitive | One donor *not said here* | the lives of several people |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the NHS |  |  |  |  | up nine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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