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title: Spinach is healthy, but it gives no sudden muscles; muscles grow ove… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: Spinach is healthy, but it gives no sudden muscles; muscles grow over months with exercise, food and rest, and Popeye is a cartoon that exaggerates on purpose. Who acts: Spinach, muscles, Popeye, cartoon. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths course of Mov
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 13

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Spinach is healthy, but it gives no sudden muscles; muscles grow over months with exercise, food and rest, and Popeye is a cartoon that exaggerates on purpose.

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**Who acts:** Spinach, muscles, Popeye, cartoon · **What happens:** be, give, grow, exaggerate · **To what, where:** sudden muscles, cartoon, purpose

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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 (Spinach, muscles, Popeye, cartoon), 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:13
# text = Spinach is healthy, but it gives no sudden muscles; muscles grow over months with exercise, food and rest, and Popeye is a cartoon that exaggerates on purpose.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	Popeye	Popeye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	exaggerates	exaggerate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Spinach |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | Spinach | no sudden muscles |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | muscles |  |  |  | month | with exercise and food and rest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Popeye | a cartoon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **exaggerate** | present | a cartoon |  |  | purpose |  |  | tree rules |

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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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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