What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 4

So a seed has no soil or sunlight to grow, gum cannot stick for years, and gas from fizzy drinks escapes as a burp; your body is not a sealed bottle.

Who acts: seed, gum, gas, body · What happens: have, grow, not stick, escape, seal, not be · To what, where: soil, sealed bottle

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 (seed, gum, gas, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sunlight	cc
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soil	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grow	mark
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soil	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stick	punct
12	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stick	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stick	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stick	advmod
15	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stick	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 escapes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gas	cc
20	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 escapes	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 drinks	case
22	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drinks	amod
23	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gas	nmod
24	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stick	parataxis
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 burp	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 burp	det
27	burp	burp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 escapes	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 bottle	punct
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bottle	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bottle	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 bottle	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bottle	det
34	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 bottle	amod
35	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stick	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a seed	no soil or sunlight			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
2	grow	to-infinitive	a seed not said here	no soil or sunlight not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not stick	can	gum		year		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	escape	present	gas from fizzy drinks			as a burp	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seal	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	not is a	present	your body	a sealed bottle			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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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