--- title: The inside of the small intestine is covered in millions of tiny fin… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: The inside of the small intestine is covered in millions of tiny finger-like folds called villi, which give it a huge surface for soaking up food. Who acts: tiny finger like folds, huge surface. 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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 (tiny finger like folds, huge surface), 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:12 # text = The inside of the small intestine is covered in millions of tiny finger-like folds called villi, which give it a huge surface for soaking up food. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 intestine intestine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 15 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 villi villus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl:relcl 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 soaking soak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | the inside of the small intestine | | | | in millions of tiny finger like folds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in million=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | tiny finger like folds *not said here* | villi | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | tiny finger like folds | a huge surface | intestine | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient surface=Theme | | 4 | **soak up** | gerund | a huge surface *not said here* | food | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | 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:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/11/) - next →: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/)