Lungs, air and keeping fit, sentence 10
When the diaphragm tightens and moves down, the chest gets bigger and air flows into the lungs.
Who acts: diaphragm, chest, air · What happens: tighten, move down, get, flow · To what, where: lungs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lungs, air and keeping fit» of the world 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 (diaphragm, chest, air), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 tightens | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 diaphragm | det |
| 3 | diaphragm | diaphragm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tightens | nsubj |
| 4 | tightens | tighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 moves | cc |
| 6 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tightens | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 moves | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tightens | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flows | cc |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flows | nsubj |
| 15 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 lungs | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lungs | det |
| 18 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flows | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tighten | present | the diaphragm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | move down | present | the diaphragm not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | the chest | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | flow | present | air | the lungs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:093-lungs-air-keeping-fit.lesson:10.
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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