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title: Burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo make everyone giggle, b… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: Burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo make everyone giggle, but each one is the body doing a useful job: letting gas out, trapping germs, clearing the nose or getting rid of waste. Who acts: Burps, everyone, one, body. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 0

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Burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo make everyone giggle, but each one is the body doing a useful job: letting gas out, trapping germs, clearing the nose or getting rid of waste.

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**Who acts:** Burps, everyone, one, body, useful job · **What happens:** make, giggle, be, do, let out, trap · **To what, where:** everyone, body, useful job, gas, germs, nose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (Burps, everyone, one, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:0
# text = Burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo make everyone giggle, but each one is the body doing a useful job: letting gas out, trapping germs, clearing the nose or getting rid of waste.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Burps	burp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	farts	fart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	snot	snot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hiccups	hiccup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	_
14	giggle	giggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
27	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	trapping	trap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl
32	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	_
39	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **make** | present | Burps and farts and snot and sneezes and hiccups and poo | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **giggle** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each one | the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | the body *not said here* | a useful job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 5 | **let out** | gerund | a useful job *not said here* | gas |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |
| 6 | **trap** | gerund | a useful job *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient |
| 7 | **clear** | gerund | a useful job *not said here* | the nose |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source |
| 8 | **get** | gerund | a useful job *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

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