--- title: Smelling or even thinking about tasty food makes glands in the mouth… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: Smelling or even thinking about tasty food makes glands in the mouth release saliva, and we make roughly 1 litre of saliva a day. Who acts: Smelling, glands, 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 (Smelling, glands, 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:6 # text = Smelling or even thinking about tasty food makes glands in the mouth release saliva, and we make roughly 1 litre of saliva a day. # 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 Smelling smell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl _ _ 14 saliva saliva NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 litre litre NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 saliva saliva NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | about tasty food | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about food=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | Smelling | glands | | the mouth | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gland=Product | | 4 | **release** | present | glands *not said here* | saliva | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer saliva=Source | | 5 | **make** | present | we | 1 litre of saliva | | | day | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Product | 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:6`. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/5/) - next →: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/)