Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 9
Saliva starts to break down starch, as in bread and rice, into sugar.
Who acts: Saliva · What happens: start, break down · To what, where: starch, sugar
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 (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 | Saliva | saliva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 break | mark |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 break | compound:prt |
| 6 | starch | starch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bread | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 bread | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bread | case |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rice | cc |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bread | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sugar | punct |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sugar | case |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Saliva | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | break down | to-infinitive | Saliva not said here | starch | into sugar result; as bread and rice | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent starch=Patient into sugar=Result |
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:9.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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