--- title: Food is too big and lumpy for the body to use, so it has to be broke… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Food, body. A sentence of the lesson «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/0/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/) / 0 # Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Food, body · **What happens:** be, use, have, break down, pass · **To what, where:** tiny pieces, blood This is a sentence of the lesson «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world 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 (Food, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:033-digestion.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 033-digestion.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 lumpy lumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 24 enough enough ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is** | present | Food | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Food *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | to-infinitive | the body | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | body | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **break down** | to-infinitive · passive | body *not said here* | | | | | into tiny pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result | | 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | | | the blood | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial\_Location | 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:033-digestion.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The heart, blood and breathing, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/18/) - next →: [Digestion: from mouth to intestines, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/)