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title: When you swallow, the food goes down a tube called the oesophagus (f… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, food, tube, strong acid. A sentence of the lesson «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world course of Mova's primary school
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# Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, food, tube, strong acid · **What happens:** swallow, go down, call, churn · **To what, where:** tube, stomach, oesophagus, Food, thick soup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, food, tube, strong acid), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	oesophagus	oesophagus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	juices	juice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	churn	churn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go down** | present | the food | a tube |  | the stomach |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tube=Extent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a tube *not said here* | the oesophagus |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oesophagus=Recipient |
| 4 | **churn** | present | strong acid and juices | Food |  | a thick soup |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into soup=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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