The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 10

Tobacco smoke coats the lungs with tar and damages the tiny hairs that clean them, causing cancer, heart disease and breathing problems; smokers' lungs turn dark grey, while healthy lungs are pink.

Who acts: Tobacco smoke, tiny hairs, lungs, healthy lungs · What happens: coat, damage, clean, cause, breathe, turn · To what, where: lungs, tiny hairs, cancer, problems

This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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 (Tobacco smoke, tiny hairs, lungs, healthy lungs), 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	Tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	compound
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coats	nsubj
3	coats	coat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lungs	det
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coats	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tar	case
7	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coats	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 damages	cc
9	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coats	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hairs	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hairs	amod
12	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 damages	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 clean	nsubj
14	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hairs	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 clean	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 causing	punct
17	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 clean	advcl
18	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 causing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disease	punct
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disease	compound
21	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cancer	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 breathing	cc
23	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 causing	conj
24	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 breathing	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 turn	punct
26	smokers	smoker	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lungs	nmod:poss
27	'	's	PART	_	26 smokers	case
28	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 turn	nsubj
29	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coats	parataxis
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grey	amod
31	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 turn	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pink	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 pink	mark
34	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lungs	amod
35	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pink	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 pink	cop
37	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coats	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 coats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	coat	present	Tobacco smoke	the lungs	with tar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lung=Destination with tar=Theme
2	damage	present	Tobacco smoke not said here	the tiny hairs		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	clean	present	the tiny hairs	lungs = lung		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	cause	gerund	the tiny hairs not said here	cancer and heart disease		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cancer=Patient
5	breathe	gerund	the tiny hairs not said here	problems		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme
6	turn	present	smokers's lungs		grey property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present	healthy lungs		pink property	tree rules

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:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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