Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 2
When you swallow, muscles in the food pipe squeeze it down in waves, like toothpaste pushed along a tube, so it would reach your stomach even if you stood on your head.
Who acts: you, muscles, body · What happens: swallow, squeeze down, push, reach, stand · To what, where: body, waves, toothpaste, tube, stomach, head
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 (you, muscles, body), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 swallow | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 squeeze | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallow | punct |
| 5 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 squeeze | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pipe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pipe | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pipe | compound |
| 9 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 muscles | nmod |
| 10 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 squeeze | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 squeeze | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 waves | case |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 squeeze | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 toothpaste | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 toothpaste | case |
| 17 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waves | nmod |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 toothpaste | acl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 tube | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tube | det |
| 21 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pushed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reach | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 reach | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 reach | aux |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 squeeze | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obj |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 stood | advmod |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 stood | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 reach | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 squeeze | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | you | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | squeeze down | present | muscles in the food pipe | body | waves like toothpaste | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in wave=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | push | participle | toothpaste not said here | a tube | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent along tube=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | reach | would | body | your stomach | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand a condition, not said to happen | past | you | your head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=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:2.
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): no change. 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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