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title: A cheese sandwich at lunch goes on a long journey, and by the end yo… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics
description: A cheese sandwich at lunch goes on a long journey, and by the end your body has broken it into pieces so tiny that they pass into your blood. Who acts: cheese sandwich, body, pieces. A sentence of the lesson «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 0

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A cheese sandwich at lunch goes on a long journey, and by the end your body has broken it into pieces so tiny that they pass into your blood.

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**Who acts:** cheese sandwich, body, pieces · **What happens:** go, break, pass · **To what, where:** long journey, sandwich, pieces, blood

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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 (cheese sandwich, body, pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:067-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich.lesson:0
# text = A cheese sandwich at lunch goes on a long journey, and by the end your body has broken it into pieces so tiny that they pass into your blood.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 067-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | present | a cheese sandwich at lunch |  |  | a long journey |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |
| 2 | **break** | present · perfect | your body | sandwich |  |  | by the end | into pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **pass** | present | pieces *= piece* |  |  | your blood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial\_Location |

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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:067-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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