--- title: Apple pips contain a substance that can release cyanide, but the amo… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics description: Apple pips contain a substance that can release cyanide, but the amount is tiny and a whole swallowed pip usually passes out unbroken; harm would need a very large number chewed at once. Who acts: Apple pips, substance, amount, whole swallowed pip. 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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 (Apple pips, substance, amount, whole swallowed pip), 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:11 # text = Apple pips contain a substance that can release cyanide, but the amount is tiny and a whole swallowed pip usually passes out unbroken; harm would need a very large number chewed at once. # 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): no change 1 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pips pip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 cyanide cyanide NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 pip pip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 usually usually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 unbroken unbroken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **contain** | present | Apple pips | a substance | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot substance=Theme | | 2 | **release** | can | a substance | cyanide | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer cyanide=Source | | 3 | **is** | present | the amount | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pass out** | present | a whole swallowed pip | | | | | unbroken, usually *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **need** | would | harm | a large number | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme | | 7 | **chew** | participle | | a large number *not said here* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at once=Patient | 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:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:11`. **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: [What really happens to things you swal…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/10/) - next →: [What really happens to things you swal…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/)