--- title: So blood is like a delivery service: it picks up oxygen in the lungs… — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics description: So blood is like a delivery service: it picks up oxygen in the lungs and food from the gut, drops them off at every cell, and carries the waste away. Who acts: blood, heart. 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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 (blood, heart), 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:5 # text = So blood is like a delivery service: it picks up oxygen in the lungs and food from the gut, drops them off at every cell, and carries the waste away. # 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): no change 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 delivery delivery NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | present | blood | | | | | like a delivery service | tree rules | | 2 | **pick up** | present | heart | oxygen | | the lungs from the gut and food | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Topic | | 3 | **drop off** | present | heart *not said here* | blood | | every cell | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at cell=Destination | | 4 | **carry away** | present | heart *not said here* | the waste | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Theme | 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:world:032-heart-blood-breathing.lesson:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [The heart, blood and breathing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/4/) - next →: [The heart, blood and breathing, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/)