The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 15
Poo is about three-quarters water, and much of the rest is bacteria, undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining; it is brown because of a pigment made from old red blood cells.
Who acts: Poo · What happens: be, make · To what, where: quarters water, rest, pigment, old red blood cells
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 (Poo), 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 | Poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 water | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 quarters | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 6 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 much | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 much | cc |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bacteria | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bacteria | cop |
| 15 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fibre | punct |
| 17 | undigested | undigested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fibre | amod |
| 18 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bacteria | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cells | cc |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cells | amod |
| 21 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fibre | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 lining | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lining | det |
| 24 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lining | compound |
| 25 | lining | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cells | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 brown | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brown | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 brown | cop |
| 29 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | conj |
| 30 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 33 pigment | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 because | fixed |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pigment | det |
| 33 | pigment | pigment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brown | obl |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 pigment | acl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 cells | case |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cells | amod |
| 37 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cells | amod |
| 38 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cells | compound |
| 39 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 made | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | 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 | Poo | quarters water and bacteria and undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Poo not said here | the rest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Poo not said here | of bacteria and undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | poo | because a pigment; brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | a pigment not said here | old red blood cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from cell=Material |
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:15.
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 ×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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