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title: Tobacco smoke coats the lungs with tar and damages the tiny hairs th… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: Tobacco smoke coats the lungs with tar and damages the tiny hairs that clean them, causing cancer, heart disease and breathing problems; smokers' lungs turn dark grey, while healthy lungs are pink. Who acts: Tobacco smoke, tiny hairs, lungs, healthy lungs. A sentence of the lesson «The human body de
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 10

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Tobacco smoke coats the lungs with tar and damages the tiny hairs that clean them, causing cancer, heart disease and breathing problems; smokers' lungs turn dark grey, while healthy lungs are pink.

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**Who acts:** Tobacco smoke, tiny hairs, lungs, healthy lungs · **What happens:** coat, damage, clean, cause, breathe, turn · **To what, where:** lungs, tiny hairs, cancer, problems

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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 (Tobacco smoke, tiny hairs, lungs, healthy lungs), 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:10
# text = Tobacco smoke coats the lungs with tar and damages the tiny hairs that clean them, causing cancer, heart disease and breathing problems; smokers' lungs turn dark grey, while healthy lungs are pink.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	coats	coat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	smokers	smoker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
30	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grey	grey	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **coat** | present | Tobacco smoke | the lungs |  |  |  | with tar | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lung=Destination with tar=Theme |
| 2 | **damage** | present | Tobacco smoke *not said here* | the tiny hairs |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **clean** | present | the tiny hairs | lungs *= lung* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | the tiny hairs *not said here* | cancer and heart disease |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cancer=Patient |
| 5 | **breathe** | gerund | the tiny hairs *not said here* | problems |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | present | smokers's lungs |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | healthy lungs |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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