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title: To breathe in, the diaphragm under your lungs tightens and moves dow… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: To breathe in, the diaphragm under your lungs tightens and moves down and your ribs move up and out; the chest gets bigger and air rushes in. Who acts: diaphragm, ribs, chest, air. A sentence of the lesson «Lungs, air and keeping fit» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Lungs, air and keeping fit, sentence 2

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To breathe in, the diaphragm under your lungs tightens and moves down and your ribs move up and out; the chest gets bigger and air rushes in.

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**Who acts:** diaphragm, ribs, chest, air · **What happens:** breathe in, tighten, move down, move up, get, rush in

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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, ribs, 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:2
# text = To breathe in, the diaphragm under your lungs tightens and moves down and your ribs move up and out; the chest gets bigger and air rushes in.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	tightens	tighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound
28	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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** | to-infinitive | the diaphragm under your lungs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tighten** | present | the diaphragm under your lungs |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **move down** | present | the diaphragm under your lungs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move up** | present | your ribs |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | the chest |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **rush in** | present | air |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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