--- title: When you swallow, a flap called the epiglottis covers the windpipe;… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics description: When you swallow, a flap called the epiglottis covers the windpipe; if you laugh or talk while swallowing, some drink can slip into the windpipe and you cough it out. Who acts: you, flap, drink. 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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, flap, drink), 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:8 # text = When you swallow, a flap called the epiglottis covers the windpipe; if you laugh or talk while swallowing, some drink can slip into the windpipe and you cough it out. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flap flap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 epiglottis epiglottis NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 windpipe windpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 windpipe windpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cough cough VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 . . 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 | **call** | participle | a flap *not said here* | the epiglottis | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent epiglottis=Recipient | | 3 | **cover** | present | a flap | the windpipe | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme windpipe=Destination | | 4 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **talk** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **swallow** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **slip** | can | some drink | | | the windpipe | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **cough out** | present | you | epiglottis | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/7/) - next →: [Digestion: the journey of a sandwich, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/)