--- title: A spacer holds the puff so it can be breathed in slowly, so more med… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics description: A spacer holds the puff so it can be breathed in slowly, so more medicine reaches the lungs. Who acts: spacer, more medicine. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Asthma and inhalers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/) / 9 # Asthma and inhalers, sentence 9 A spacer holds the puff so it can be breathed in slowly, so more medicine reaches the lungs. **Who acts:** spacer, more medicine · **What happens:** hold, breathe in, reach · **To what, where:** puff, spacer, lungs 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 (spacer, more medicine), 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:9 # text = A spacer holds the puff so it can be breathed in slowly, so more medicine reaches the lungs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spacer spacer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 so so SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 breathed breathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 16 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 . . 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 | **hold** | present | a spacer | the puff | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puff=Theme | | 2 | **breathe in** | can · passive | | spacer | | | | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | present | more medicine | the lungs | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=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:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:9`. **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, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/8/) - next →: [Asthma and inhalers, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/)