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title: The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet)… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long. Who acts: small intestine. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 13

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The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long.

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**Who acts:** small intestine · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** six metres

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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 (small intestine), 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:13
# text = The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **is a** | present | the small intestine of a adult | six metres |  |  |  | long *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:world:033-digestion.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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