--- title: When you swallow, muscles in the food pipe squeeze it down in waves,… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: When you swallow, muscles in the food pipe squeeze it down in waves, like toothpaste pushed along a tube, so it would reach your stomach even if you stood on your head. Who acts: you, muscles, body. 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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 (you, muscles, body), 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:2 # text = When you swallow, muscles in the food pipe squeeze it down in waves, like toothpaste pushed along a tube, so it would reach your stomach even if you stood on your head. # 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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 toothpaste toothpaste NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 along along ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **swallow** | present | you | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **squeeze down** | present | muscles in the food pipe | body | | waves like toothpaste | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in wave=Trajectory | | 3 | **push** | participle | | toothpaste *not said here* | | a tube | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent along tube=Trajectory | | 4 | **reach** | would | body | your stomach | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme | | 5 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | your head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/1/) - next →: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/)