The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 2
Food takes a long journey: the stomach churns it in strong acid, then the small intestine, about 6 metres of tube folded up in your belly, soaks it into the blood through millions of tiny finger-like bumps.
Who acts: Food, stomach, small intestine · What happens: take, churn, fold up, soak · To what, where: long journey, journey, strong acid, tube, belly, blood
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 (Food, stomach, small intestine), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 churns | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stomach | det |
| 8 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 churns | nsubj |
| 9 | churns | churn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 churns | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 acid | case |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 acid | amod |
| 13 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 churns | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 soaks | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 soaks | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 intestine | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 intestine | amod |
| 18 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 soaks | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 metres | punct |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 6 | advmod |
| 21 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 metres | nummod |
| 22 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 intestine | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tube | case |
| 24 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 metres | nmod |
| 25 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tube | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 folded | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 belly | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 belly | nmod:poss |
| 29 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 folded | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 soaks | punct |
| 31 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 soaks | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 blood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 blood | det |
| 35 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 soaks | obl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 millions | case |
| 37 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 soaks | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 bumps | case |
| 39 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bumps | amod |
| 40 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bumps | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 bumps | punct |
| 42 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bumps | amod |
| 43 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 millions | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Food | a long journey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | churn | present | the stomach | journey | strong acid | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 3 | fold up | participle | tube not said here | your belly | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | soak | present | the small intestine | journey | the blood | then | through millions of tiny finger like bumps | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:2.
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, R6-punct-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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