--- title: The air goes down the windpipe into branching tubes like an upside-d… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics description: The air goes down the windpipe into branching tubes like an upside-down tree, ending in hundreds of millions of tiny bubbles where oxygen slips into the blood and carbon dioxide slips out. Who acts: air, oxygen, carbon dioxide. 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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, oxygen, carbon dioxide), 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:2 # text = The air goes down the windpipe into branching tubes like an upside-down tree, ending in hundreds of millions of tiny bubbles where oxygen slips into the blood and carbon dioxide slips out. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 windpipe windpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 branching branching NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 down down ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | present | the air | the windpipe | | branching tubes like a down tree | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient windpipe=Extent | | 2 | **end** | gerund | the air *not said here* | | | hundreds of millions of tiny bubbles | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **slip** | present | oxygen | | | the blood | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **slip out** | present | carbon dioxide | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/1/) - next →: [Lungs and breathing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/)