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title: The stomach churns it in strong acid, the long folded small intestin… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics
description: The stomach churns it in strong acid, the long folded small intestine soaks up the goodness, and the large intestine takes back the water before what is left leaves the body. Who acts: stomach, long folded small intestine, large intestine. A sentence of the lesson «Digestion: the journey of a sandwi
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# Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, sentence 3

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The stomach churns it in strong acid, the long folded small intestine soaks up the goodness, and the large intestine takes back the water before what is left leaves the body.

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**Who acts:** stomach, long folded small intestine, large intestine · **What happens:** churn, fold, soak up, take back, leave · **To what, where:** body, strong acid, goodness, water

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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 (stomach, long folded small intestine, large intestine), 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:3
# text = The stomach churns it in strong acid, the long folded small intestine soaks up the goodness, and the large intestine takes back the water before what is left leaves the body.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	churns	churn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **churn** | present | the stomach | body |  | strong acid |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **soak up** | present | the long folded small intestine | the goodness |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goodness=Source |
| 4 | **take back** | present | the large intestine | the water |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **leave** | present |  | the body |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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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**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. **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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