Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 3
The stomach churns it in strong acid, the long folded small intestine soaks up the goodness, and the large intestine takes back the water before what is left leaves the body.
Who acts: stomach, long folded small intestine, large intestine · What happens: churn, fold, soak up, take back, leave · To what, where: body, strong acid, goodness, water
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 (stomach, long folded small intestine, large intestine), 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 stomach | det |
| 2 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 churns | nsubj |
| 3 | churns | churn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 churns | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 acid | case |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 acid | amod |
| 7 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 churns | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soaks | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 intestine | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 intestine | amod |
| 11 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 intestine | amod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 intestine | amod |
| 13 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soaks | nsubj |
| 14 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 churns | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 soaks | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goodness | det |
| 17 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soaks | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 takes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 takes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 intestine | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 intestine | amod |
| 22 | intestine | intestine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | nsubj |
| 23 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 churns | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 takes | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | obj |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 leaves | mark |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 leaves | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux:pass |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 what | acl |
| 31 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 takes | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaves | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 churns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | churn | present | the stomach | body | strong acid | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | fold | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | soak up | present | the long folded small intestine | the goodness | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goodness=Source | ||||
| 4 | take back | present | the large intestine | the water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | present · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 6 | leave | present | the body | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
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:3.
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. 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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