Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 3
When you swallow, the food goes down a tube called the oesophagus (food pipe) into the stomach, where strong acid and juices churn it into a thick soup.
Who acts: you, food, tube, strong acid · What happens: swallow, go down, call, churn · To what, where: tube, stomach, oesophagus, Food, thick soup · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, food, tube, strong acid), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 swallow | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goes | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 goes | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tube | det |
| 10 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | obj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tube | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oesophagus | det |
| 13 | oesophagus | oesophagus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 pipe | punct |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pipe | compound |
| 16 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oesophagus | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 pipe | punct |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 stomach | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stomach | det |
| 20 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stomach | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 churn | advmod |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 acid | amod |
| 24 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 churn | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 juices | cc |
| 26 | juices | juice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 acid | conj |
| 27 | churn | churn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stomach | acl:relcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 churn | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 soup | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 soup | det |
| 31 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soup | amod |
| 32 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 churn | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | you | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go down | present | the food | a tube | the stomach | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tube=Extent | ||
| 3 | call | participle | a tube not said here | the oesophagus | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oesophagus=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | churn | present | strong acid and juices | Food | a thick soup | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into soup=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:world:033-digestion.lesson:3.
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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