What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 16
You cannot swallow your tongue, because it is fixed to the floor of your mouth.
Who acts: You · What happens: not swallow, fix · To what, where: tongue
This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 swallow | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 swallow | advmod |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixed | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 fixed | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fixed | aux:pass |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallow | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floor | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swallow | can | You | your tongue | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fix | present · passive | tongue | to the floor of your mouth | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to floor=Co-Patient |
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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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): 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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