Lungs and breathing, sentence 5

The lungs are two spongy organs in the chest; a child's lungs hold about 2 to 3 litres of air and an adult's about 6 litres.

Who acts: lungs · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: two spongy organs, chest, 2 litres

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lungs	det
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 organs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 organs	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 organs	nummod
5	spongy	spongy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 organs	amod
6	organs	organ	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chest	det
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 organs	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lungs	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 child	case
14	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hold	nsubj
15	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 organs	parataxis
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 2	advmod
17	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 litres	nummod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 3	case
19	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 2	nmod
20	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hold	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 air	case
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 litres	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 litres	cc
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 litres	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 adult	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 6	advmod
28	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 litres	nummod
29	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 litres	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 organs	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	the lungs	two spongy organs		the chest			tree rules
2	hold	present	a child's lungs	2 litres of air and a adult's 6 litres					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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:066-lungs-and-breathing.lesson:5.

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 ×2. 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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