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title: Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) tog… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) together; it passes through in a day or two. Who acts: Swallowed chewing gum, gum. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 9

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Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) together; it passes through in a day or two.

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**Who acts:** Swallowed chewing gum, gum · **What happens:** swallow, not stick, pass · **To what, where:** intestines

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' 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 chewing gum, gum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:9
# text = Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) together; it passes through in a day or two.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
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	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	intestines	intestine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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** **stick** | present · do-support | Swallowed chewing gum | your intestines |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent intestine=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | gum |  |  |  | day |  | 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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**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 ×3. **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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