--- title: The small intestine is about 6 to 7 metres long in an adult, folded… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: The small intestine is about 6 to 7 metres long in an adult, folded up in the tummy, and most digestion and absorption of food into the blood happens there. Who acts: most digestion. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most digestion), 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:11 # text = The small intestine is about 6 to 7 metres long in an adult, folded up in the tummy, and most digestion and absorption of food into the blood happens there. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 intestine intestine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 23 digestion digestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 absorption absorption NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | in a adult; 6 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fold up** | participle | | a adult *not said here* | | the tummy | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **happen** | present | most digestion of food and absorption into the blood | | | there | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **digest** | | | food | | | | | nom digestion «process transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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