Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 2

Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again.

Who acts: Asthma, tubes, breathing, reliever inhaler · What happens: narrow, carry, be, open · To what, where: tubes, air, lungs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday 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 (Asthma, tubes, breathing, reliever inhaler), 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	Asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 narrows	nsubj
2	narrows	narrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tubes	det
4	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 narrows	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tubes	acl:relcl
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 lungs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lungs	det
10	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hard	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
13	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hard	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	cop
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 narrows	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wheezy	cc
17	wheezy	wheezy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hard	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 opens	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 inhaler	det
20	reliever	reliever	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inhaler	compound
21	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opens	nsubj
22	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 narrows	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 opens	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 opens	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 narrows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	narrow	present	Asthma	the tubes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tube=Patient
2	carry	present	the tubes	air	the lungs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	is	present	breathing				hard property	tree rules
4	be		breathing not said here					tree rules
5	open	present	a reliever inhaler	tubes = tube		again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:2.

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.

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