--- title: Digestion: from mouth to intestines — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Digestion: from mouth to intestines», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Food is too big and lumpy for the body to use, so it has to be broken down into tiny pieces small enough to pass into the blood. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Digestion: from mouth to intestines # Digestion: from mouth to intestines Lesson 33 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/33-digestion/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/0/) — Food is too big and lumpy for the body to use, so it has to be broken down into tiny pieces small enough to pass into the blood. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/1/) — This is called digestion. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/2/) — It starts in the mouth: teeth chew the food and saliva wets it and begins to break down starch. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/3/) — When you swallow, the food goes down a tube called the oesophagus (food pipe) into the stomach, where strong acid and juices churn it into a thick soup. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/4/) — In the small intestine, a tube about six metres (about 20 feet) long folded up in your belly, the food is broken down fully and passes into the blood. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/5/) — What is left goes into the large intestine, where water is taken back into the body, and the waste leaves the body as faeces. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/6/) — Think of it like a factory line: each part does one job and passes the work on to the next. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/7/) — Digestion breaks food into pieces small enough to pass into the blood. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/8/) — Digestion starts in the mouth with chewing and saliva. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/9/) — Saliva starts to break down starch, as in bread and rice, into sugar. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/10/) — The oesophagus (food pipe) carries food from the mouth to the stomach. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/11/) — The stomach mixes food with acid and juices. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/12/) — Most digested food passes into the blood in the small intestine. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/13/) — The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/14/) — The large intestine takes water back from what is left. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/15/) — Fibre from fruit, vegetables and whole grains helps food move through the intestines. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/16/) — Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constipated, which means finding it hard to poo. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/17/) — The liver makes bile, which helps to digest fat. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/18/) — Food passes along the food pipe and intestines because muscles in their walls squeeze it along. - ← previous: [The heart, blood and breathing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/) - next →: [The brain, nerves and the five senses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)