--- title: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it passes through the bod… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it passes through the body in a few days; it does not stay for seven years. Who acts: dentist. 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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 (dentist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:13 # text = Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it passes through the body in a few days; it does not stay for seven years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl 2 chewing chew NOUN NN _ 3 compound _ _ 3 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 digested digest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **digest** | present · passive | | Swallowed chewing gum | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | present | dentist | | | the body | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through body=Location | | 4 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | dentist | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/12/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)