--- title: Swallowed gum usually passes through your body in a few days, not se… — "How do you know?" · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowed gum usually passes through your body in a few days, not seven years (but gum is still for chewing, not swallowing). Who acts: Swallowed gum, 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 (Swallowed gum, gum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:17 # text = Swallowed gum usually passes through your body in a few days, not seven years (but gum is still for chewing, not swallowing). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 186-how-do-you-know.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **pass** | present | Swallowed gum | | | your body | day; year | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through body=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | gum | | | | still | chew *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **swallow** | gerund | gum *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: ["How do you know?", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/16/) - next →: ["How do you know?", 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/)