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title: A scary number, a cousin's doctor nobody has met, or half a headline… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: A scary number, a cousin's doctor nobody has met, or half a headline is not proof; ask who measured it and read the whole thing, and remember one example proves little, while a record kept over many days shows much more. Who acts: scary number, headline, one example, record. A sentence of the lesson
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 18

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A scary number, a cousin's doctor nobody has met, or half a headline is not proof; ask who measured it and read the whole thing, and remember one example proves little, while a record kept over many days shows much more.

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**Who acts:** scary number, headline, one example, record · **What happens:** meet, not be, ask, measure, read, remember · **To what, where:** proof, headline, whole thing, record, more · **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 (scary number, headline, one example, record), 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:18
# text = A scary number, a cousin's doctor nobody has met, or half a headline is not proof; ask who measured it and read the whole thing, and remember one example proves little, while a record kept over many days shows much more.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
41	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	over	over	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj
45	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:parataxis
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present · perfect | a scary number |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | half headline | proof |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **measure** | past |  | headline |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
| 5 | **read** | infinitive |  | the whole thing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 6 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **prove** | present | one example |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **keep** | participle |  | a record *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **show** | present | a record | more |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient |

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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:18`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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