Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 18
Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it does not stay inside for 7 years: it passes through and leaves the body in a few days, like other things we cannot digest.
Who acts: gum, we · What happens: swallow, not digest, not stay, pass through, leave · To what, where: Swallowed chewing gum, body
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 (gum, we), 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 | Swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gum | amod |
| 2 | chewing | chew | NOUN | _ | 3 gum | compound |
| 3 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 digested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 digested | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 digested | advmod |
| 6 | digested | digest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stay | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stay | advmod |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 digested | conj |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 15 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stay | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 passes | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passes | nsubj |
| 19 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 digested | parataxis |
| 20 | through | through | ADV | _ | 19 passes | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leaves | cc |
| 22 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 passes | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaves | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 days | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 days | amod |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 leaves | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 digest | punct |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 things | case |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 things | amod |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 digest | obl |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 digest | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 digest | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 digest | advmod |
| 36 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 digested | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 digested | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not digest | present · passive | Swallowed chewing gum | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not stay | present · do-support | gum | year | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | pass through | present | gum | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | present | gum not said here | the body | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 6 | not digest | can | we | like other things | tree rules |
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:18.
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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