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title: A meal takes from about one to three days to travel all the way thro… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: A meal takes from about one to three days to travel all the way through the gut. Who acts: meal. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 15

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A meal takes from about one to three days to travel all the way through the gut.

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**Who acts:** meal · **What happens:** take, travel · **To what, where:** way, gut

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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 (meal), 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:15
# text = A meal takes from about one to three days to travel all the way through the gut.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | present | a meal |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | a meal *not said here* | all way |  | the gut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gut=Trajectory |

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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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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