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title: In cartoons, Tom swallows something and you can see its shape slidin… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts · tree and pragmatics
description: In cartoons, Tom swallows something and you can see its shape sliding down inside him, and gum is said to stay in your stomach for seven years; in real life your gut keeps everything moving, and swallowed gum comes out in a few days. Who acts: Tom, you, shape, gut. A sentence of the lesson «The huma
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# The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts, sentence 4

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In cartoons, Tom swallows something and you can see its shape sliding down inside him, and gum is said to stay in your stomach for seven years; in real life your gut keeps everything moving, and swallowed gum comes out in a few days.

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**Who acts:** Tom, you, shape, gut, everything, swallowed gum · **What happens:** swallow, see, slide down, say, stay, keep · **To what, where:** something, cartoons, shape, gum, stomach, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tom, you, shape, gut), 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:4
# text = In cartoons, Tom swallows something and you can see its shape sliding down inside him, and gum is said to stay in your stomach for seven years; in real life your gut keeps everything moving, and swallowed gum comes out in a 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod
36	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
37	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
38	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
49	.	.	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 | **swallow** | present | Tom | something |  | cartoons |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | stomach's shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slide down** | gerund | stomach's shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside Tom; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | gum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | your stomach | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stomach=Location |
| 6 | **keep** | present | your gut | everything |  | real life |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **move** | gerund | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **come out** | present | swallowed gum |  |  |  | day |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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