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title: The truth is a long tube: what you swallow goes down to a stomach fu… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth is a long tube: what you swallow goes down to a stomach full of strong acid, on through the gut, and whatever your body cannot use comes out the other end, usually within a day or two. Who acts: truth, you, body. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the m
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 3

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The truth is a long tube: what you swallow goes down to a stomach full of strong acid, on through the gut, and whatever your body cannot use comes out the other end, usually within a day or two.

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**Who acts:** truth, you, body · **What happens:** be, swallow, go down, not use, come out · **To what, where:** long tube, gut, whatever, other end

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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 (truth, you, body), 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:3
# text = The truth is a long tube: what you swallow goes down to a stomach full of strong acid, on through the gut, and whatever your body cannot use comes out the other end, usually within a day or two.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	csubj	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	csubj	_	_
33	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	within	within	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | the truth | a long tube |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **go down** | present |  |  |  | the gut |  | to a stomach; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on gut=Location |
| 4 | **not** **use** | can | your body | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient |
| 5 | **come out** | present |  | the other end |  |  | day |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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