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title: The diaphragm, a dome of muscle under the lungs, pulls down to suck… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: The diaphragm, a dome of muscle under the lungs, pulls down to suck air in, and hiccups are sudden jumps of the diaphragm. Who acts: diaphragm, hiccups. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 5

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The diaphragm, a dome of muscle under the lungs, pulls down to suck air in, and hiccups are sudden jumps of the diaphragm.

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**Who acts:** diaphragm, hiccups · **What happens:** pull down, suck in, be · **To what, where:** air, sudden jumps

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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 (diaphragm, hiccups), 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:5
# text = The diaphragm, a dome of muscle under the lungs, pulls down to suck air in, and hiccups are sudden jumps of the diaphragm.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	hiccups	hiccup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	jumps	jump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **pull down** | present | the diaphragm |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suck in** | to-infinitive | the diaphragm *not said here* | air |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | present | hiccups | sudden jumps |  |  |  | of the diaphragm | 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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