--- title: Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constip… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics description: Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constipated, which means finding it hard to poo. Who acts: food. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/16/) [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/) / 16 # Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 16 Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constipated, which means finding it hard to poo. **Who acts:** food · **What happens:** move, constipate, mean, find, poo · **To what, where:** person, Food · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:16 # text = Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constipated, which means finding it hard to poo. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Without without ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 constipated constipate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 17 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 poo poo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **move** | present | food | | | | | without enough fibre; slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **constipate** | can · passive | | a person | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **find** | gerund | | Food | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **poo** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Digestion: from mouth to intestines, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/15/) - next →: [Digestion: from mouth to intestines, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/)