Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 6
Smelling or even thinking about tasty food makes glands in the mouth release saliva, and we make roughly 1 litre of saliva a day.
Who acts: Smelling, glands, we · What happens: smell, think, make, release · To what, where: glands, mouth, saliva, 1 litre
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 (Smelling, glands, 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 | Smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 thinking | cc |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Smelling | conj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glands | nmod |
| 13 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 glands | acl |
| 14 | saliva | saliva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 release | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | conj |
| 19 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 20 1 | advmod |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 litre | nummod |
| 21 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 saliva | case |
| 23 | saliva | saliva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 litre | nmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | 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 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | about tasty food | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about food=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Smelling | glands | the mouth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gland=Product | |||
| 4 | release | present | glands not said here | saliva | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer saliva=Source | ||||
| 5 | make | present | we | 1 litre of saliva | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Product |
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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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