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description: The liver is the largest organ inside the body; it processes food from the gut, stores energy and vitamins, makes bile to help digest fat and cleans harmful substances from the blood. Who acts: liver, bile. A sentence of the lesson «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» of the biology course of Mova
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# Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 16

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The liver is the largest organ inside the body; it processes food from the gut, stores energy and vitamins, makes bile to help digest fat and cleans harmful substances from the blood.

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**Who acts:** liver, bile · **What happens:** be, process, store, make, help, digest · **To what, where:** largest organ, body, food, gut, energy, bile

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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 (liver, bile), 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:16
# text = The liver is the largest organ inside the body; it processes food from the gut, stores energy and vitamins, makes bile to help digest fat and cleans harmful substances from the 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	processes	process	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	bile	bile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | the liver | the largest organ |  | the body |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **process** | present | liver | food |  | the gut |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **store** | present | liver *not said here* | energy and vitamins |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | liver *not said here* | bile |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | bile *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **digest** | infinitive | bile *not said here* | fat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **clean** | present | bile *not said here* | harmful substances |  | the blood |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent substance=Theme from blood=Source |

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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:16`.

**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, 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.

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

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