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title: When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down and makes… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics
description: When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down and makes more room, the pressure in your lungs drops, and the air outside pushes in, just like water into a syringe when you pull the plunger. Who acts: you, muscle, pressure, air. A sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and 
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# Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 2

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When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down and makes more room, the pressure in your lungs drops, and the air outside pushes in, just like water into a syringe when you pull the plunger.

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**Who acts:** you, muscle, pressure, air · **What happens:** breathe in, pull down, make, drop, push in, pull · **To what, where:** more room, plunger

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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, pressure, 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:2
# text = When you breathe in, a muscle under your lungs pulls down and makes more room, the pressure in your lungs drops, and the air outside pushes in, just like water into a syringe when you pull the plunger.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	syringe	syringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	plunger	plunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **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 | **make** | present | a muscle under your lungs *not said here* | more room |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product |
| 4 | **drop** | present | the pressure in your lungs |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **push in** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | like water into a syringe | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pull** | present | you | the plunger |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunger=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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