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title: Poo is about three-quarters water, and much of the rest is bacteria,… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: Poo is about three-quarters water, and much of the rest is bacteria, undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining; it is brown because of a pigment made from old red blood cells. Who acts: Poo. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» of th
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 15

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Poo is about three-quarters water, and much of the rest is bacteria, undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining; it is brown because of a pigment made from old red blood cells.

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**Who acts:** Poo · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** quarters water, rest, pigment, old red blood cells

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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 (Poo), 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:15
# text = Poo is about three-quarters water, and much of the rest is bacteria, undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining; it is brown because of a pigment made from old red blood cells.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	undigested	undigested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lining	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
30	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 a** | present | Poo | quarters water and bacteria and undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Poo *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Poo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of bacteria and undigested fibre and old cells from the gut lining | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | poo |  |  |  |  | because a pigment; brown *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | a pigment *not said here* |  | old red blood cells |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from cell=Material |

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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 ×1, 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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