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title: Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops. Who acts: Circular breathing, sound. A sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» of the arts course of Mova's primary 
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 11

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Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops.

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**Who acts:** Circular breathing, sound · **What happens:** mean, breathe in, push out, store, not stop · **To what, where:** nose, air, cheeks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» of the arts 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 (Circular breathing, sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:11
# text = Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Circular breathing |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **breathe in** | gerund |  |  |  | the nose |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push out** | gerund |  | air |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 4 | **store** | participle |  | air *not said here* |  | the cheeks |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cheek=Location |
| 5 | **not** **stop** | present | the sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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