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title: A swallowed cherry stone cannot grow inside you; it passes through,… — Food on the floor and kitchen rules · tree and pragmatics
description: A swallowed cherry stone cannot grow inside you; it passes through, though chewing and eating many cherry stones is not safe. Who acts: swallowed cherry stone, stone, chewing. A sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Food on the floor and kitchen rules, sentence 9

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A swallowed cherry stone cannot grow inside you; it passes through, though chewing and eating many cherry stones is not safe.

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**Who acts:** swallowed cherry stone, stone, chewing · **What happens:** swallow, not grow, pass through, chew, eat, not be · **To what, where:** many cherry stones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» 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 (swallowed cherry stone, stone, chewing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.lesson:9
# text = A swallowed cherry stone cannot grow inside you; it passes through, though chewing and eating many cherry stones is not safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	through	through	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | can | a swallowed cherry stone |  |  |  |  | inside you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location |
| 3 | **pass through** | present | stone |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund |  | many cherry stones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | chewing |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.lesson:9`.

**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.

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

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