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title: A preventer inhaler contains a steroid that calms airway swelling ov… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics
description: A preventer inhaler contains a steroid that calms airway swelling over time and only works if taken every day. Who acts: preventer inhaler, steroid. 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 cla
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# Asthma and inhalers, sentence 7

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A preventer inhaler contains a steroid that calms airway swelling over time and only works if taken every day.

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**Who acts:** preventer inhaler, steroid · **What happens:** contain, calm, work, take · **To what, where:** steroid, airway swelling

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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 (preventer inhaler, steroid), 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:7
# text = A preventer inhaler contains a steroid that calms airway swelling over time and only works if taken every day.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	preventer	preventer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	steroid	steroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	calms	calm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	airway	airway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	swelling	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | a preventer inhaler | a steroid |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot steroid=Theme |
| 2 | **calm** | present | a steroid | airway swelling |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swell=Experiencer |
| 3 | **work** | present | a steroid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a steroid *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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