The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 8

The nose makes mucus all the time, and most of it is swallowed without you noticing; it traps dust, pollen and germs before they reach the lungs.

Who acts: nose, you, gas, dust · What happens: make, swallow, notice, trap, reach · To what, where: mucus, most, dust, lungs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (nose, you, gas, dust), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nose	det
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swallowed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swallowed	cc
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 swallowed	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 most	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 swallowed	aux:pass
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 makes	conj
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 noticing	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 noticing	nsubj
17	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 swallowed	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dust	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 traps	nsubj
20	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
21	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 traps	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pollen	punct
23	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dust	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 germs	cc
25	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pollen	conj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 reach	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reach	nsubj
28	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 traps	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lungs	det
30	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reach	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	present	the nose	mucus	time	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mucus=Product
2	swallow	present · passive		most of nose		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	notice	gerund	you			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	trap	present	gas	dust and pollen and germs		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
5	reach	present	dust	the lungs		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=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:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.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, R8-pos-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.

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