--- title: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it does not stay inside f… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it does not stay inside for 7 years: it passes through and leaves the body in a few days, like other things we cannot digest. Who acts: gum, we. 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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 (gum, we), 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:18 # text = Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it does not stay inside for 7 years: it passes through and leaves the body in a few days, like other things we cannot digest. # 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 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ _ 2 chewing chew NOUN NN _ 3 compound _ _ 3 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 digested digest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 inside inside ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 through through ADV RB _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **digest** | present · passive | | Swallowed chewing gum | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | gum | | | | year | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pass through** | present | gum | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | present | gum *not said here* | the body | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | | 6 | **not** **digest** | can | we | | | | | like other things | tree rules | 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:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/17/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/)