Asthma and inhalers, sentence 14
A peak flow meter measures how fast you can blow air out, which shows how open the airways are.
Who acts: flow meter, you, airways · What happens: measure, blow out, show, be · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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 (flow meter, you, airways), 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 | 4 meter | det |
| 2 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flow | compound |
| 3 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meter | compound |
| 4 | meter | meter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 measures | nsubj |
| 5 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 blow | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 blow | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | aux |
| 10 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 measures | ccomp |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 blow | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shows | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shows | nsubj |
| 15 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 open | advmod |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shows | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 airways | det |
| 19 | airways | airway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 open | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 open | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 measures | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a flow meter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blow out | can | you | air | fast property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 3 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the airways | open property | tree rules |
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:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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