--- title: Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you;… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you; the seed simply passes through. Who acts: Swallowing, seed. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Big kids, little kids and the truth at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) / 34 # Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 34 Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you; the seed simply passes through. **Who acts:** Swallowing, seed · **What happens:** swallow, not grow, pass through · **To what, where:** watermelon seed, watermelon This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday 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 (Swallowing, seed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:34 # text = Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you; the seed simply passes through. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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 Swallowing swallow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 watermelon watermelon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 watermelon watermelon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 inside inside ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 simply simply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 17 through through ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | gerund | | a watermelon seed | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 2 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | Swallowing | a watermelon | | | | inside you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watermelon=Theme | | 3 | **pass through** | present | the seed | | | | | simply, through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:34`. **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. 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