Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 16
The liver is the largest organ inside the body; it processes food from the gut, stores energy and vitamins, makes bile to help digest fat and cleans harmful substances from the blood.
Who acts: liver, bile · What happens: be, process, store, make, help, digest · To what, where: largest organ, body, food, gut, energy, bile
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 (liver, bile), 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 | 2 liver | det |
| 2 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 organ | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 organ | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 organ | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 organ | amod |
| 6 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 organ | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 processes | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 processes | nsubj |
| 12 | processes | process | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 organ | parataxis |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 processes | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 gut | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gut | det |
| 16 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 processes | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stores | punct |
| 18 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 processes | conj |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stores | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vitamins | cc |
| 21 | vitamins | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 energy | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 makes | punct |
| 23 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 processes | conj |
| 24 | bile | bile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 makes | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 makes | xcomp |
| 27 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 help | xcomp |
| 28 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 digest | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cleans | cc |
| 30 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 digest | conj |
| 31 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 substances | amod |
| 32 | substances | substance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cleans | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 blood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 blood | det |
| 35 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cleans | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 organ | 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 | the liver | the largest organ | the body | tree rules | |||
| 2 | process | present | liver | food | the gut | tree rules | |||
| 3 | store | present | liver not said here | energy and vitamins | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | liver not said here | bile | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | bile not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | digest | infinitive | bile not said here | fat | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | clean | present | bile not said here | harmful substances | the blood | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent substance=Theme from blood=Source |
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:16.
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, 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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