--- title: Swallowed chewing gum cannot be fully digested, but it moves through… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowed chewing gum cannot be fully digested, but it moves through the gut and comes out in a day or two; only swallowing big lumps very often could cause a blockage. Who acts: gum. 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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 (gum), 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:6 # text = Swallowed chewing gum cannot be fully digested, but it moves through the gut and comes out in a day or two; only swallowing big lumps very often could cause a blockage. # 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 ×1 1 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 2 chewing chewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 fully fully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 digested digest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 blockage blockage NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **digest** | can · passive | | Swallowed chewing gum | | | | fully *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | present | gum | | | the gut | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through gut=Trajectory | | 4 | **come out** | present | gum *not said here* | | | | day | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **swallow** | gerund | gum *not said here* | big lumps | | | | often *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient | | 6 | **cause** | could | gum *not said here* | a blockage | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blockage=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:6`. **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 ×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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