Asthma and inhalers, sentence 9
A spacer holds the puff so it can be breathed in slowly, so more medicine reaches the lungs.
Who acts: spacer, more medicine · What happens: hold, breathe in, reach · To what, where: puff, spacer, lungs
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 (spacer, more medicine), 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 spacer | det |
| 2 | spacer | spacer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 puff | det |
| 5 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 breathed | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 breathed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 breathed | aux:pass |
| 10 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 holds | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 breathed | compound:prt |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 breathed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reaches | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 reaches | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 medicine | amod |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reaches | nsubj |
| 17 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lungs | det |
| 19 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reaches | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a spacer | the puff | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | breathe in | can · passive | spacer | slowly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | more medicine | the lungs | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=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:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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