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title: The nose makes mucus all the time, and most of it is swallowed witho… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: The nose makes mucus all the time, and most of it is swallowed without you noticing; it traps dust, pollen and germs before they reach the lungs. Who acts: nose, you, gas, dust. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» of the biology course of Mo
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 8

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The nose makes mucus all the time, and most of it is swallowed without you noticing; it traps dust, pollen and germs before they reach the lungs.

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**Who acts:** nose, you, gas, dust · **What happens:** make, swallow, notice, trap, reach · **To what, where:** mucus, most, dust, lungs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (nose, you, gas, dust), 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:8
# text = The nose makes mucus all the time, and most of it is swallowed without you noticing; it traps dust, pollen and germs before they reach the lungs.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mucus	mucus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | the nose | mucus |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mucus=Product |
| 2 | **swallow** | present · passive |  | most of nose |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **notice** | gerund | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **trap** | present | gas | dust and pollen and germs |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |
| 5 | **reach** | present | dust | the lungs |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=Theme |

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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 ×1, R8-pos-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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