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title: Red blood cells carry oxygen; white blood cells fight germs. — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: Red blood cells carry oxygen; white blood cells fight germs. Who acts: Red blood cells, white blood cells. A sentence of the lesson «The heart, blood and breathing» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 16

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Red blood cells carry oxygen; white blood cells fight germs.

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**Who acts:** Red blood cells, white blood cells · **What happens:** carry, fight · **To what, where:** oxygen, germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart, blood and breathing» of the world 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 (Red blood cells, white blood cells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:032-heart-blood-breathing.lesson:16
# text = Red blood cells carry oxygen; white blood cells fight germs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 032-heart-blood-breathing.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	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **carry** | present | Red blood cells | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | present | white blood cells | germs |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-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:world:032-heart-blood-breathing.lesson:16`.

**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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