Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 2

It starts in the mouth: teeth chew the food and saliva wets it and begins to break down starch.

Who acts: Food, teeth, saliva · What happens: start, chew, wet, begin, break down · To what, where: mouth, food, starch

This is a sentence of the lesson «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world 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 (Food, teeth, saliva), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mouth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouth	det
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 chew	punct
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chew	nsubj
8	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 starts	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chew	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wets	cc
12	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wets	nsubj
13	wets	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chew	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wets	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begins	cc
16	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wets	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 break	mark
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begins	xcomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 break	compound:prt
20	starch	starch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 break	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	start	present	Food		the mouth	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	chew	present	teeth	the food		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	wet	present	saliva	Food		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	begin	present	saliva not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	break down	to-infinitive	saliva not said here	starch		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starch=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:world:033-digestion.lesson:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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