--- title: A hiccup is the diaphragm, the big breathing muscle under the lungs,… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics description: A hiccup is the diaphragm, the big breathing muscle under the lungs, suddenly jerking while the voice box snaps shut; eating fast, fizzy drinks or a full stomach can trigger it. Who acts: hiccup, voice box, eating fizzy drinks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hiccup, voice box, eating fizzy drinks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:13 # text = A hiccup is the diaphragm, the big breathing muscle under the lungs, suddenly jerking while the voice box snaps shut; eating fast, fizzy drinks or a full stomach can trigger it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hiccup hiccup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 diaphragm diaphragm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 jerking jerk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound 21 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 22 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 27 fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 trigger trigger VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hiccup | the diaphragm | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **jerk** | gerund | a hiccup *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **snap** | present | the voice box | | | | | shut *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **trigger** | can | eating fizzy drinks or a full stomach | box | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | 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. **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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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