What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 6

Swallowed chewing gum cannot be fully digested, but it moves through the gut and comes out in a day or two; only swallowing big lumps very often could cause a blockage.

Who acts: gum · What happens: swallow, not digest, move, come out, cause · To what, where: Swallowed chewing gum, gut, big lumps, blockage

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 (gum), 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	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gum	amod
2	chewing	chewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gum	compound
3	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digested	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 digested	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 digested	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 digested	aux:pass
7	fully	fully	ADV	_	8 digested	advmod
8	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moves	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 moves	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moves	nsubj
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 digested	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 gut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gut	det
15	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moves	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 comes	cc
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moves	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 comes	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 two	cc
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 swallowing	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 swallowing	advmod
26	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 moves	conj
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lumps	amod
28	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swallowing	obj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 often	advmod
30	often	often	ADV	_	26 swallowing	advmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cause	aux
32	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swallowing	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 blockage	det
34	blockage	blockage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cause	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 digested	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not digest	can · passive		Swallowed chewing gum			fully property	tree rules
3	move	present	gum		the gut			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through gut=Trajectory
4	come out	present	gum not said here			day		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	swallow	gerund	gum not said here	big lumps			often property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient
6	cause	could	gum not said here	a blockage				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blockage=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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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