The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 4
In cartoons, Tom swallows something and you can see its shape sliding down inside him, and gum is said to stay in your stomach for seven years; in real life your gut keeps everything moving, and swallowed gum comes out in a few days.
Who acts: Tom, you, shape, gut, everything, swallowed gum · What happens: swallow, see, slide down, say, stay, keep · To what, where: something, cartoons, shape, gum, stomach, everything · 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 (Tom, you, shape, gut), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 cartoons | case |
| 2 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swallows | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cartoons | punct |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swallows | nsubj |
| 5 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 swallows | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swallows | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shape | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 sliding | advmod |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sliding | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 19 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 swallows | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stay | mark |
| 23 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 stomach | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 26 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stay | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stay | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 keeps | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 keeps | obl |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 gut | nmod:poss |
| 35 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 keeps | nsubj |
| 36 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 37 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 36 keeps | obj |
| 38 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 keeps | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 comes | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 comes | cc |
| 41 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 gum | amod |
| 42 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 comes | nsubj |
| 43 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 keeps | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 comes | compound:prt |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 days | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 days | det |
| 47 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 days | amod |
| 48 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 comes | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swallows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | Tom | something | cartoons | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | can | you | stomach's shape | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slide down | gerund | stomach's shape not said here | inside Tom; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · passive | gum | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | your stomach | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stomach=Location | ||||
| 6 | keep | present | your gut | everything | real life | tree rules | |||
| 7 | move | gerund | everything not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | come out | present | swallowed gum | day | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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:4.
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, R5-strong ×3, 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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