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title: Holding your breath does help you float, because air in your lungs m… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding your breath does help you float, because air in your lungs makes you lighter for your size. Who acts: Holding, you, air. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 18

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Holding your breath does help you float, because air in your lungs makes you lighter for your size.

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**Who acts:** Holding, you, air · **What happens:** hold, help, float, make · **To what, where:** breath, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (Holding, you, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:18
# text = Holding your breath does help you float, because air in your lungs makes you lighter for your size.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	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 | **hold** | gerund |  | your breath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present · do-support | Holding | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | air in your lungs | you |  |  |  | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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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**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.

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