The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 13
A hiccup is the diaphragm, the big breathing muscle under the lungs, suddenly jerking while the voice box snaps shut; eating fast, fizzy drinks or a full stomach can trigger it.
Who acts: hiccup, voice box, eating fizzy drinks · What happens: be, jerk, snap, eat, trigger · To what, where: diaphragm, box
This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (hiccup, voice box, eating fizzy drinks), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hiccup | det |
| 2 | hiccup | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 diaphragm | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 diaphragm | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 diaphragm | det |
| 5 | diaphragm | diaphragm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 muscle | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 muscle | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 muscle | amod |
| 9 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muscle | compound |
| 10 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 diaphragm | appos |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 lungs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lungs | det |
| 13 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 muscle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jerking | punct |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 jerking | advmod |
| 16 | jerking | jerk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lungs | conj |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 snaps | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 box | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 box | compound |
| 20 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snaps | nsubj |
| 21 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 jerking | advcl |
| 22 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 snaps | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 drinks | punct |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 drinks | amod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 eating | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drinks | punct |
| 27 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 drinks | amod |
| 28 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 trigger | nsubj |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 stomach | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stomach | det |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stomach | amod |
| 32 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drinks | conj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 trigger | aux |
| 34 | trigger | trigger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 diaphragm | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 trigger | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 diaphragm | 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 | is a | present | a hiccup | the diaphragm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jerk | gerund | a hiccup not said here | suddenly property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | snap | present | the voice box | shut property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | fast property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | trigger | can | eating fizzy drinks or a full stomach | box | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:13.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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