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title: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested but passes through in a few da… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested but passes through in a few days; swallowing lots at once can block the gut, so gum belongs in a bin. Who acts: gum. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 12

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Swallowed chewing gum is not digested but passes through in a few days; swallowing lots at once can block the gut, so gum belongs in a bin.

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**Who acts:** gum · **What happens:** swallow, not digest, pass through, block, belong · **To what, where:** Swallowed chewing gum, lots, gut, bin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:12
# text = Swallowed chewing gum is not digested but passes through in a few days; swallowing lots at once can block the gut, so gum belongs in a bin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
2	chewing	chewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
3	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	digested	digest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **digest** | present · passive |  | Swallowed chewing gum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass through** | present |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swallow** | gerund |  | lots |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 5 | **block** | can |  | the gut |  |  |  | once *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme |
| 6 | **belong** | present | gum |  |  | a bin |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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