--- title: Your voice is made when air from the lungs passes the vocal cords in… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics description: Your voice is made when air from the lungs passes the vocal cords in the voice box, the larynx, making them vibrate; the mouth and tongue shape the sound into words. Who acts: air, cords, mouth. 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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 (air, cords, mouth), 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:15 # text = Your voice is made when air from the lungs passes the vocal cords in the voice box, the larynx, making them vibrate; the mouth and tongue shape the sound into words. # 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 ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 vocal vocal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 larynx larynx NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 vibrate vibrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 29 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 shape shape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Your voice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **pass** | present | air from the lungs | the vocal cords | | the voice box and the larynx | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cord=Theme in box=Destination | | 3 | **make** | gerund | air from the lungs *not said here* | cords *= cord* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **vibrate** | infinitive | cords *= cord* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **shape** | present | the mouth and tongue | the sound | | words | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent sound=Material into word=Product | 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:066-lungs-and-breathing.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Lungs and breathing, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/14/) - next →: [Lungs and breathing, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/)