Lungs, air and keeping fit, sentence 4

Your nose and windpipe clean the air: hairs and sticky mucus trap dust and germs, and tiny moving hairs sweep the mucus up so you swallow or cough it away.

Who acts: nose, hairs, tiny moving hairs, you · What happens: clean, trap, move, sweep up, swallow, cough away · To what, where: air, dust, mucus

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 (nose, hairs, tiny moving hairs, you), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 windpipe	cc
4	windpipe	windpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nose	conj
5	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 clean	punct
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trap	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mucus	cc
11	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mucus	amod
12	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hairs	conj
13	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clean	parataxis
14	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trap	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 germs	cc
16	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dust	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sweep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sweep	cc
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hairs	amod
20	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hairs	amod
21	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sweep	nsubj
22	sweep	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trap	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mucus	det
24	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sweep	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	22 sweep	compound:prt
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 swallow	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 swallow	nsubj
28	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sweep	advcl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 cough	cc
30	cough	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 swallow	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cough	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	30 cough	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Your nose and windpipe	the air		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	trap	present	hairs and sticky mucus	dust and germs		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
3	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	sweep up	present	tiny moving hairs	the mucus		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mucus=Trajectory
5	swallow	present	you			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cough away	present	you not said here	air	away property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, 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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