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title: When the diaphragm tightens and moves down, the chest gets bigger an… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: When the diaphragm tightens and moves down, the chest gets bigger and air flows into the lungs. Who acts: diaphragm, chest, air. A sentence of the lesson «Lungs, air and keeping fit» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lungs, air and keeping fit, sentence 10

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When the diaphragm tightens and moves down, the chest gets bigger and air flows into the lungs.

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**Who acts:** diaphragm, chest, air · **What happens:** tighten, move down, get, flow · **To what, where:** lungs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lungs, air and keeping fit» of the world 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 (diaphragm, chest, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:093-lungs-air-keeping-fit.lesson:10
# text = When the diaphragm tightens and moves down, the chest gets bigger and air flows into the lungs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 093-lungs-air-keeping-fit.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tightens	tighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **tighten** | present | the diaphragm |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **move down** | present | the diaphragm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | the chest |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **flow** | present | air |  |  | the lungs |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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): 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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