Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 0
A cheese sandwich at lunch goes on a long journey, and by the end your body has broken it into pieces so tiny that they pass into your blood.
Who acts: cheese sandwich, body, pieces · What happens: go, break, pass · To what, where: long journey, sandwich, pieces, blood
This is a sentence of the lesson «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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 (cheese sandwich, body, pieces), 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 | 3 sandwich | det |
| 2 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sandwich | compound |
| 3 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 lunch | case |
| 5 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sandwich | nmod |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 journey | amod |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 broken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broken | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broken | obl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broken | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 broken | aux |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 goes | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 broken | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broken | obl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 tiny | advmod |
| 24 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pieces | amod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 pass | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pass | nsubj |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tiny | advcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 blood | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 blood | nmod:poss |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a cheese sandwich at lunch | a long journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | present · perfect | your body | sandwich | by the end | into pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result | ||
| 3 | pass | present | pieces = piece | your blood | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial_Location |
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:067-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich.lesson:0.
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. 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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