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title: When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down, your ches… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics
description: When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down, your chest gets bigger, the pressure inside drops, and outside air pushes in. Who acts: you, muscle, chest, outside air. A sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with
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# Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 10

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When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down, your chest gets bigger, the pressure inside drops, and outside air pushes in.

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**Who acts:** you, muscle, chest, outside air · **What happens:** breathe in, pull down, get, push in · **To what, where:** pressure

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics 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 (you, muscle, chest, outside air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:10
# text = When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down, your chest gets bigger, the pressure inside drops, and outside air pushes in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **breathe in** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull down** | present | a muscle under your lungs |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | your chest | the pressure inside drops |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **push in** | present | outside air |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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