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title: A tummy rumble is gas and liquid squeezed along the gut by its muscl… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: A tummy rumble is gas and liquid squeezed along the gut by its muscles, louder when the stomach is empty, and washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds removes most germs. Who acts: tummy rumble, stomach. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and po
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 18

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A tummy rumble is gas and liquid squeezed along the gut by its muscles, louder when the stomach is empty, and washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds removes most germs.

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**Who acts:** tummy rumble, stomach · **What happens:** be, squeeze, wash, remove · **To what, where:** gas liquid, gut, hands, most germs

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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 (tummy rumble, stomach), 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:18
# text = A tummy rumble is gas and liquid squeezed along the gut by its muscles, louder when the stomach is empty, and washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds removes most germs.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rumble	rumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	nsubj	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	removes	remove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
34	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a tummy rumble | gas liquid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeeze** | participle |  | gas liquid *not said here* |  | the gut |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent along gut=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | the stomach |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wash** | gerund |  | hands |  |  | second | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 5 | **remove** | present |  | most germs |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:18`.

**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): 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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