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title: Stomach acid is very strong and kills germs and breaks down food, an… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: Stomach acid is very strong and kills germs and breaks down food, and a thick layer of slime stops the stomach from digesting itself; the lining replaces itself every few days. Who acts: Stomach acid, thick layer, stomach, lining. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and g
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 13

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Stomach acid is very strong and kills germs and breaks down food, and a thick layer of slime stops the stomach from digesting itself; the lining replaces itself every few days.

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**Who acts:** Stomach acid, thick layer, stomach, lining · **What happens:** be, kill, break down, stop, digest, replace · **To what, where:** germs, food, stomach, lining

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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 (Stomach acid, thick layer, stomach, lining), 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:13
# text = Stomach acid is very strong and kills germs and breaks down food, and a thick layer of slime stops the stomach from digesting itself; the lining replaces itself every few days.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	digesting	digest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lining	lining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	replaces	replace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Stomach acid |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | present | Stomach acid *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 3 | **break down** | present | Stomach acid *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | present | a thick layer of slime | the stomach |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stomach=Eventuality |
| 5 | **digest** | gerund | the stomach *not said here* | stomach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **replace** | present | the lining | lining |  |  | day |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Co-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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**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): R7-rel-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.

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