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title: In the small intestine, a tube about six metres (about 20 feet) long… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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
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# Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 4

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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.

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**What happens:** fold up, break down, pass · **To what, where:** tube, belly, food, small intestine, blood

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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: 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:4
# text = 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.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
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	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
17	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **fold up** | participle |  | a tube  six metres *not said here* |  | your belly |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break down** | present · passive |  | the food |  | the small intestine |  | fully *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present |  |  |  | the blood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial\_Location |

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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:4`.

**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. **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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