--- title: Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics description: Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again. Who acts: Asthma, tubes, breathing, reliever inhaler. 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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 (Asthma, tubes, breathing, reliever inhaler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:2 # text = Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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 Asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 narrows narrow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wheezy wheezy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 reliever reliever NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 inhaler inhaler NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **narrow** | present | Asthma | the tubes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tube=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | present | the tubes | air | | the lungs | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | breathing | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | breathing *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **open** | present | a reliever inhaler | tubes *= tube* | | | again | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | 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:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/1/) - next →: [Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/)