Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 11
The small intestine is about 6 to 7 metres long in an adult, folded up in the tummy, and most digestion and absorption of food into the blood happens there.
Who acts: most digestion · What happens: be, fold up, happen, digest · To what, where: adult, tummy, food
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 (most digestion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 intestine | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 intestine | amod |
| 3 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adult | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 6 | advmod |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 metres | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 7 | case |
| 8 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 6 | nmod |
| 9 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 long | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 adult | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adult | det |
| 13 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 long | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 folded | punct |
| 15 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 adult | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 folded | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tummy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tummy | det |
| 19 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 folded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 happens | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 happens | cc |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 digestion | amod |
| 23 | digestion | digestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 absorption | cc |
| 25 | absorption | absorption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 digestion | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 digestion | nmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 blood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blood | det |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 absorption | nmod |
| 31 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 happens | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | in a adult; 6 metres obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fold up | participle | a adult not said here | the tummy | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | most digestion of food and absorption into the blood | there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | digest | food | nom digestion «process transitive»: of=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:067-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich.lesson:11.
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 ×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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