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title: Food myths are delicious: a melon growing in your belly, eight spide… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: Food myths are delicious: a melon growing in your belly, eight spiders a year crawling into your sleeping mouth, crusts that curl your hair, a Mentos and cola tummy that goes BOOM. Who acts: Food myths, melon, eight spiders, crusts. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 2

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Food myths are delicious: a melon growing in your belly, eight spiders a year crawling into your sleeping mouth, crusts that curl your hair, a Mentos and cola tummy that goes BOOM.

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**Who acts:** Food myths, melon, eight spiders, crusts, tummy · **What happens:** be, grow, crawl, curl, go · **To what, where:** eight spiders, belly, sleeping mouth, hair, BOOM

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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 (Food myths, melon, eight spiders, crusts), 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:2
# text = Food myths are delicious: a melon growing in your belly, eight spiders a year crawling into your sleeping mouth, crusts that curl your hair, a Mentos and cola tummy that goes BOOM.
# 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
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	crusts	crust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	curl	curl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Mentos	mento	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:compound
33	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	BOOM	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Food myths |  |  |  |  | delicious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | a melon | eight spiders  a year |  | your belly |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in belly=Location |
| 3 | **crawl** | gerund | eight spiders  a year *not said here* |  |  | your sleeping mouth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **curl** | present | crusts and a Mentos and cola and tummy | your hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | present | tummy | BOOM |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boom=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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**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. **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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