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title: An adult's lungs hold several litres of air, but a normal breath is… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult's lungs hold several litres of air, but a normal breath is only about half a litre, and you breathe about 20,000 times a day. Who acts: lungs, normal breath, you. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 6

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An adult's lungs hold several litres of air, but a normal breath is only about half a litre, and you breathe about 20,000 times a day.

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**Who acts:** lungs, normal breath, you · **What happens:** hold, be, breathe · **To what, where:** several litres, litre

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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 (lungs, normal breath, 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:6
# text = An adult's lungs hold several litres of air, but a normal breath is only about half a litre, and you breathe about 20,000 times a day.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hold** | present | a adult's lungs | several litres of air |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a normal breath | half litre |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **breathe** | present | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:6`.

**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.

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

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