Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 8

Posture is the way you hold your body; slumping squashes the chest and belly, so there is less air and less control of the breath.

Who acts: Posture, you, less air · What happens: be, hold, slump, squash · To what, where: way, body, chest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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 (Posture, you, less air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Posture	posture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hold	nsubj
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	acl:relcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
10	slumping	slump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 squashes	nsubj
11	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chest	det
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squashes	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 belly	cc
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chest	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 is	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 squashes	advcl
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 air	amod
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 control	cc
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 control	amod
24	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 air	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 breath	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 breath	det
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 control	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Posture	the way		tree rules
2	hold	present	you	your body		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
3	slump	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	squash	present		the chest and belly		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient
5	does	present	less air and less control of the breath		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.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): 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.

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