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title: Lie on the grass and watch your tummy rise and fall: a dome-shaped m… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: Lie on the grass and watch your tummy rise and fall: a dome-shaped muscle under your lungs, the diaphragm, pulls down, the chest gets roomier, and air rushes in through your nose. Who acts: you, chest, air. A sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Lungs and breathing, sentence 1

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Lie on the grass and watch your tummy rise and fall: a dome-shaped muscle under your lungs, the diaphragm, pulls down, the chest gets roomier, and air rushes in through your nose.

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**Who acts:** you, chest, air · **What happens:** lie, watch, fall, pull down, get, rush in · **To what, where:** grass, tummy rise, nose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» 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 (you, chest, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:066-lungs-and-breathing.lesson:1
# text = Lie on the grass and watch your tummy rise and fall: a dome-shaped muscle under your lungs, the diaphragm, pulls down, the chest gets roomier, and air rushes in through your nose.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 066-lungs-and-breathing.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss
8	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	shaped	shaped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	roomier	roomy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc
34	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tummy rise  a shaped muscle under your lungs |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull down** | present |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | the chest |  |  |  |  | roomy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **rush in** | present | air |  |  | your nose |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through nose=Trajectory |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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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