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title: My cousin's doctor said so." Everyone gasps, and somebody quietly sp… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: My cousin's doctor said so." Everyone gasps, and somebody quietly spits theirs into a tissue. Who acts: doctor, Everyone, somebody. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 1

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My cousin's doctor said so." Everyone gasps, and somebody quietly spits theirs into a tissue.

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**Who acts:** doctor, Everyone, somebody · **What happens:** say, gasp, spit · **To what, where:** theirs, tissue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (doctor, Everyone, somebody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:1
# text = My cousin's doctor said so." Everyone gasps, and somebody quietly spits theirs into a tissue.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gasps	gasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	spits	spit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My cousin's doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gasp** *in a quote* | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spit** *in a quote* | present | somebody | theirs *= they* |  | a tissue |  | quietly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent their=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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**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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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