Lungs and breathing, sentence 13
A sneeze is a reflex that blasts air out of the nose and mouth to clear something irritating, like dust or pepper.
Who acts: sneeze, reflex · What happens: be, blast, clear · To what, where: reflex, air, nose, something
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 (sneeze, reflex), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sneeze | det |
| 2 | sneeze | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reflex | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reflex | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reflex | det |
| 5 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 blasts | nsubj |
| 7 | blasts | blast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reflex | acl:relcl |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blasts | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nose | det |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blasts | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mouth | cc |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nose | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 clear | mark |
| 16 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 blasts | advcl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 clear | obj |
| 18 | irritating | irritate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dust | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 dust | case |
| 21 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 something | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 pepper | cc |
| 23 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dust | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reflex | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sneeze | a reflex | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blast | present | a reflex | air | the nose and mouth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme | |||
| 3 | clear | to-infinitive | a reflex not said here | something | like dust or pepper | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent something=Source |
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:13.
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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