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title: Under your lungs lies a dome of muscle called the diaphragm; when it… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: Under your lungs lies a dome of muscle called the diaphragm; when it pulls down, air rushes into your lungs, and when it relaxes, air flows back out, about 20,000 times a day without you thinking about it. Who acts: dome, muscle, air, you. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stom
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 0

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Under your lungs lies a dome of muscle called the diaphragm; when it pulls down, air rushes into your lungs, and when it relaxes, air flows back out, about 20,000 times a day without you thinking about it.

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**Who acts:** dome, muscle, air, you · **What happens:** lie, call, pull down, rush, relax, flow · **To what, where:** lungs, diaphragm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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 (dome, muscle, air, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:0
# text = Under your lungs lies a dome of muscle called the diaphragm; when it pulls down, air rushes into your lungs, and when it relaxes, air flows back out, about 20,000 times a day without you thinking about it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound
19	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	relaxes	relax	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
39	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a dome of muscle |  |  | your lungs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under lung=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | muscle *not said here* | the diaphragm |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent diaphragm=Recipient |
| 3 | **pull down** | present | dome |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** |  | air |  |  | your lungs |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **relax** | present | air |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **flow** | present | air |  |  |  | time | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | you |  |  |  |  | about air | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

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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): 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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