Asthma and inhalers, sentence 5
In asthma the airways are sensitive, and triggers such as colds, exercise, cold air, dust or smoke make them tighten and swell.
Who acts: airways, triggers · What happens: be, make, tighten, swell · To what, where: asthma, airways
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 (airways, triggers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 asthma | case |
| 2 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sensitive | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 airways | det |
| 4 | airways | airway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sensitive | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sensitive | cop |
| 6 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 9 | triggers | trigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | nsubj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 colds | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 triggers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exercise | punct |
| 14 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 colds | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 air | punct |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 colds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dust | punct |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 colds | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 smoke | cc |
| 21 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 colds | conj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sensitive | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 make | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swell | cc |
| 26 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 tighten | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sensitive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the airways | asthma | sensitive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | triggers such colds and exercise and cold air and dust or smoke | airways = airway | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tighten | infinitive | airways = airway not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | swell | infinitive | airways = airway not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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