Lungs and breathing, sentence 1
Lie on the grass and watch your tummy rise and fall: a dome-shaped muscle under your lungs, the diaphragm, pulls down, the chest gets roomier, and air rushes in through your nose.
Who acts: you, chest, air · What happens: lie, watch, fall, pull down, get, rush in · To what, where: grass, tummy rise, nose
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» 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 (you, chest, 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 grass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grass | det |
| 4 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 watch | cc |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lie | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rise | compound |
| 9 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fall | cc |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rise | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 muscle | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 muscle | det |
| 14 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shaped | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 dome | punct |
| 16 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 muscle | amod |
| 17 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rise | nmod |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 lungs | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 muscle | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 diaphragm | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 diaphragm | det |
| 23 | diaphragm | diaphragm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 muscle | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pulls | punct |
| 25 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 pulls | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 down | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chest | det |
| 29 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gets | nsubj |
| 30 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pulls | conj |
| 31 | roomier | roomy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 gets | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rushes | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rushes | cc |
| 34 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rushes | nsubj |
| 35 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gets | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADV | _ | 35 rushes | advmod |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 nose | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 nose | nmod:poss |
| 39 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rushes | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | the grass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | tummy rise a shaped muscle under your lungs | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | you not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull down | present | down property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | present | the chest | roomy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | rush in | present | air | your nose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through nose=Trajectory |
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:066-lungs-and-breathing.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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.
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