The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 14
The small intestine of an adult is about 6 metres long, though books give different lengths, and tiny finger-like bumps called villi soak food into the blood; the long, bumpy tube gives a huge surface for soaking up food.
Who acts: small intestine, books, like bumps, villi, long bumpy tube, huge surface · What happens: be, give, call, soak, soak up · To what, where: 6 metres, different lengths, villi, food, blood, huge surface · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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 (small intestine, books, like bumps, villi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 intestine | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 intestine | amod |
| 3 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 metres | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 adult | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 intestine | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 metres | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 6 | advmod |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 metres | nummod |
| 10 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 metres | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 metres | advcl |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lengths | amod |
| 17 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finger | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finger | cc |
| 20 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 finger | amod |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lengths | conj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bumps | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bumps | amod |
| 24 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 finger | appos |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 bumps | acl |
| 26 | villi | villus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 called | xcomp |
| 27 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 villi | acl:relcl |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soak | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 blood | det |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soak | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tube | det |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tube | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 long | punct |
| 36 | bumpy | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tube | amod |
| 37 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gives | nsubj |
| 38 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 metres | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 surface | det |
| 40 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 surface | amod |
| 41 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gives | obj |
| 42 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 soaking | mark |
| 43 | soaking | soak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 surface | acl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 soaking | compound:prt |
| 45 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 soaking | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 metres | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the small intestine of a adult | 6 metres | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | books | different lengths and tiny finger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | like bumps not said here | villi | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | soak | present | villi not said here | food | the blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | present | the long bumpy tube | a huge surface | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 6 | soak up | gerund | a huge surface not said here | food | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
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.
Licence: CC 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:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:14.
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.
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