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title: In the lungs oxygen passes from the air into the blood; millions of… — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: In the lungs oxygen passes from the air into the blood; millions of tiny air bags give a huge surface for it to pass through. Who acts: oxygen, millions. 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
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# The heart, blood and breathing, sentence 8

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In the lungs oxygen passes from the air into the blood; millions of tiny air bags give a huge surface for it to pass through.

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**Who acts:** oxygen, millions · **What happens:** pass, give, pass through · **To what, where:** lungs, huge surface

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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 (oxygen, millions), 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:8
# text = In the lungs oxygen passes from the air into the blood; millions of tiny air bags give a huge surface for it to pass through.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	through	through	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **pass** | present | oxygen |  |  | the lungs |  | from the air; into the blood | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from air=Initial\_Location into blood=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | millions of tiny air bags | a huge surface |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme |
| 3 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | oxygen | a huge surface *not said here* |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-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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