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title: Seeds cannot grow in your stomach, which is dark, very acidic and ha… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeds cannot grow in your stomach, which is dark, very acidic and has no soil; swallowed pips simply pass through. Who acts: Seeds, stomach, swallowed pips. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 8

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Seeds cannot grow in your stomach, which is dark, very acidic and has no soil; swallowed pips simply pass through.

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**Who acts:** Seeds, stomach, swallowed pips · **What happens:** not grow, be, have, swallow, pass through · **To what, where:** stomach, soil

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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 (Seeds, stomach, swallowed pips), 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:8
# text = Seeds cannot grow in your stomach, which is dark, very acidic and has no soil; swallowed pips simply pass through.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:acl
21	pips	pip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	through	through	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **grow** | can | Seeds |  |  | your stomach |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stomach=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | your stomach |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | your stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | your stomach *not said here* | no soil |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |
| 5 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pass through** | present | swallowed pips |  |  |  |  | simply, through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:8`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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