--- title: So a seed has no soil or sunlight to grow, gum cannot stick for year… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics description: So a seed has no soil or sunlight to grow, gum cannot stick for years, and gas from fizzy drinks escapes as a burp; your body is not a sealed bottle. Who acts: seed, gum, gas, body. 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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 (seed, gum, gas, 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:4 # text = So a seed has no soil or sunlight to grow, gum cannot stick for years, and gas from fizzy drinks escapes as a burp; your body is not a sealed bottle. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 12 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 burp burp NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a seed | no soil or sunlight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a seed *not said here* | no soil or sunlight *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **stick** | can | gum | | | | year | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **escape** | present | gas from fizzy drinks | | | | | as a burp | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **seal** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | your body | a sealed bottle | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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