The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 5
A burp is gas from the stomach coming back up, swallowed air plus the carbon dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks, and babies gulp air while feeding, so grown-ups pat their backs.
Who acts: burp, stomach, gas, babies, grown ups · What happens: be, come back, swallow, gulp, feeding, grow · To what, where: gas, stomach, air, backs
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 (burp, stomach, gas, babies), 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 burp | det |
| 2 | burp | burp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gas | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gas | cop |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallowed | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 stomach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stomach | det |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gas | nmod |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stomach | acl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 up | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gas | punct |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallowed | obj |
| 14 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 18 bubbles | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bubbles | det |
| 16 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dioxide | compound |
| 17 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bubbles | compound |
| 18 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 air | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 drinks | case |
| 20 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 drinks | amod |
| 21 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bubbles | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gulp | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gulp | cc |
| 24 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gulp | nsubj |
| 25 | gulp | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | conj |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gulp | obj |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 feeding | mark |
| 28 | feeding | feeding | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 gulp | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pat | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 pat | advmod |
| 31 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ups | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 ups | punct |
| 33 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pat | nsubj |
| 34 | pat | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gulp | parataxis |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 backs | nmod:poss |
| 36 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pat | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gas | 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 burp | gas | the stomach | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come back | gerund | the stomach not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swallow | past | gas | air plus the dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 4 | gulp | present | babies | air | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feeding | gerund | babies not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | pat | present | grown ups | Burps's backs | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer |
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:5.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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