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title: A burp is gas from the stomach coming back up, swallowed air plus th… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics
description: A burp is gas from the stomach coming back up, swallowed air plus the carbon dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks, and babies gulp air while feeding, so grown-ups pat their backs. Who acts: burp, stomach, gas, babies. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups a
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# The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 5

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A burp is gas from the stomach coming back up, swallowed air plus the carbon dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks, and babies gulp air while feeding, so grown-ups pat their backs.

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**Who acts:** burp, stomach, gas, babies, grown ups · **What happens:** be, come back, swallow, gulp, feeding, grow · **To what, where:** gas, stomach, air, backs

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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 (burp, stomach, gas, babies), 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:5
# text = A burp is gas from the stomach coming back up, swallowed air plus the carbon dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks, and babies gulp air while feeding, so grown-ups pat their backs.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burp	burp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gulp	gulp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	feeding	feeding	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pat	pat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 burp | gas |  | the stomach |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | gerund | the stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow** | past | gas | air plus the dioxide bubbles of fizzy drinks |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 4 | **gulp** | present | babies | air |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 5 | **feeding** | gerund | babies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **pat** | present | grown ups | Burps's backs |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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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**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:5`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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