--- title: In an asthma attack the person sits upright, uses the blue inhaler w… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics description: In an asthma attack the person sits upright, uses the blue inhaler with a spacer, up to 10 puffs, and 999 is called if they are not better or get worse. Who acts: person, lungs. 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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 (person, lungs), 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:10 # text = In an asthma attack the person sits upright, uses the blue inhaler with a spacer, up to 10 puffs, and 999 is called if they are not better or get worse. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 8 upright upright ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 10 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 inhaler inhaler NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 spacer spacer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 puffs puff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the person | | | a asthma attack | | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in attack=Location | | 2 | **use** | present | the person *not said here* | the blue inhaler | | | | with a spacer; to 10 puffs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhaler=Patient | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | 999 | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lungs *= lung* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Asthma and inhalers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/9/) - next →: [Asthma and inhalers, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/)