Lungs and breathing, sentence 10
Spread out flat, all the alveoli would cover an area roughly the size of half a tennis court, a huge surface for oxygen to pass into the blood.
Who acts: you, alveoli · What happens: spread out, cover, pass · To what, where: area, blood
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, alveoli), 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 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Spread | compound:prt |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 1 Spread | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cover | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 alveoli | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 alveoli | det |
| 7 | alveoli | alveolus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cover | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cover | aux |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Spread | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 area | det |
| 11 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obj |
| 12 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 14 size | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 16 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 court | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 18 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 court | compound |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 surface | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 surface | det |
| 22 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 surface | amod |
| 23 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 area | appos |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 oxygen | case |
| 25 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 surface | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pass | mark |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 surface | acl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 blood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blood | det |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | imperative | you not said here | flat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | would | all alveoli | a area | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | all alveoli not said here | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial_Location |
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: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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