Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 13
The large intestine soaks up water and salts from what is left, and its bacteria break down some of the fibre.
Who acts: large intestine, bacteria · What happens: soak up, leave, break down · To what, where: water, some
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 (large intestine, bacteria), 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 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 intestine | amod |
| 3 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soaks | nsubj |
| 4 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 soaks | compound:prt |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soaks | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 salts | cc |
| 8 | salts | salt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 water | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 salts | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 break | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 break | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bacteria | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 break | nsubj |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soaks | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 break | compound:prt |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 break | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fibre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fibre | det |
| 22 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 some | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak up | present | the large intestine | water and salts from water and salts from water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | break down | present | intestine's bacteria | some | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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: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): 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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