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title: Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins bring it back, and t… — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins bring it back, and tiny capillaries join them inside every part of the body. Who acts: Arteries, veins, tiny capillaries. A sentence of the lesson «The heart, blood and breathing» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 4

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Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins bring it back, and tiny capillaries join them inside every part of the body.

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**Who acts:** Arteries, veins, tiny capillaries · **What happens:** carry away, bring back, join · **To what, where:** blood, heart

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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 (Arteries, veins, tiny capillaries), 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:4
# text = Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins bring it back, and tiny capillaries join them inside every part of the body.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Arteries	artery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
9	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	capillaries	capillary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry away** | present | Arteries | blood |  | the heart |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from heart=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bring back** | present | veins | heart |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | present | tiny capillaries | blood |  |  |  | every part of the body *obl*; inside *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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