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title: A sneeze is a reflex that blasts air out of the nose and mouth to cl… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: A sneeze is a reflex that blasts air out of the nose and mouth to clear something irritating, like dust or pepper. Who acts: sneeze, reflex. A sentence of the lesson «Lungs and breathing» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lungs and breathing, sentence 13

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A sneeze is a reflex that blasts air out of the nose and mouth to clear something irritating, like dust or pepper.

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**Who acts:** sneeze, reflex · **What happens:** be, blast, clear · **To what, where:** reflex, air, nose, something

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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 (sneeze, reflex), 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:13
# text = A sneeze is a reflex that blasts air out of the nose and mouth to clear something irritating, like dust or pepper.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reflex	reflex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blasts	blast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	irritating	irritate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a sneeze | a reflex |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blast** | present | a reflex | air |  | the nose and mouth |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | to-infinitive | a reflex *not said here* | something |  |  |  | like dust or pepper | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent something=Source |

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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:066-lungs-and-breathing.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): 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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