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title: The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes,… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways. Who acts: reliever inhaler. A sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Asthma and inhalers, sentence 1

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The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways.

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**Who acts:** reliever inhaler · **What happens:** relax, loosen · **To what, where:** airway muscles, tight belt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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 (reliever inhaler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:1
# text = The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 014-asthma-and-inhalers.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	reliever	reliever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	relaxes	relax	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	airway	airway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	loosening	loosen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **relax** | present | the reliever inhaler | the airway muscles |  |  | minute |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus muscle=Experiencer |
| 2 | **loosen** | gerund | the reliever inhaler *not said here* | a tight belt |  |  |  | round the airways | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=Patient |

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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:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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