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title: High up on mountains the air is thinner, so each breath brings in le… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: High up on mountains the air is thinner, so each breath brings in less oxygen. Who acts: air, breath. 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 17

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High up on mountains the air is thinner, so each breath brings in less oxygen.

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**Who acts:** air, breath · **What happens:** be, bring in · **To what, where:** mountains, less oxygen

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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 (air, breath), 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:17
# text = High up on mountains the air is thinner, so each breath brings in less oxygen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	High	high	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case
15	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | the air |  |  | mountains |  | high, thin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring in** | present | each breath | less oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oxygen=Asset |

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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:world:093-lungs-air-keeping-fit.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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