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title: Food takes a long journey: the stomach churns it in strong acid, the… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: Food takes a long journey: the stomach churns it in strong acid, then the small intestine, about 6 metres of tube folded up in your belly, soaks it into the blood through millions of tiny finger-like bumps. Who acts: Food, stomach, small intestine. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: lu
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 2

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Food takes a long journey: the stomach churns it in strong acid, then the small intestine, about 6 metres of tube folded up in your belly, soaks it into the blood through millions of tiny finger-like bumps.

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**Who acts:** Food, stomach, small intestine · **What happens:** take, churn, fold up, soak · **To what, where:** long journey, journey, strong acid, tube, belly, blood

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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 (Food, stomach, small intestine), 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:2
# text = Food takes a long journey: the stomach churns it in strong acid, then the small intestine, about 6 metres of tube folded up in your belly, soaks it into the blood through millions of tiny finger-like bumps.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	churns	churn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
40	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
42	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take** | present | Food | a long journey |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 2 | **churn** | present | the stomach | journey |  | strong acid |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **fold up** | participle |  | tube *not said here* |  | your belly |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **soak** | present | the small intestine | journey |  | the blood | then | through millions of tiny finger like bumps | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-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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