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title: Your nose is a sticky dust trap, your gut is a home for trillions of… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your nose is a sticky dust trap, your gut is a home for trillions of bacteria that make gas, and your poo is mostly water and bacteria, not old food. Who acts: nose, gut, bacteria, poo. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» of the biology cour
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 3

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Your nose is a sticky dust trap, your gut is a home for trillions of bacteria that make gas, and your poo is mostly water and bacteria, not old food.

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**Who acts:** nose, gut, bacteria, poo · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** sticky dust trap, home, gas, water

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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 (nose, gut, bacteria, 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:3
# text = Your nose is a sticky dust trap, your gut is a home for trillions of bacteria that make gas, and your poo is mostly water and bacteria, not old food.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trillions	trillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	.	.	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 | Your nose | a sticky dust trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your gut | a home |  |  |  | for trillions of bacteria | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | bacteria | gas |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | your poo | water and bacteria and old food |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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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