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title: Gas made in a closed container pushes on the walls until the weakest… — The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda · tree and pragmatics
description: Gas made in a closed container pushes on the walls until the weakest part gives, so reacting chemicals in a tightly closed bottle can burst it dangerously. Who acts: Gas, weakest part, reacting chemicals. A sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's 
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# The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda, sentence 17

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Gas made in a closed container pushes on the walls until the weakest part gives, so reacting chemicals in a tightly closed bottle can burst it dangerously.

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**Who acts:** Gas, weakest part, reacting chemicals · **What happens:** make, close, push, give, react, burst · **To what, where:** Gas, closed container

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry 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 (Gas, weakest part, reacting chemicals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.lesson:17
# text = Gas made in a closed container pushes on the walls until the weakest part gives, so reacting chemicals in a tightly closed bottle can burst it dangerously.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	weakest	weak	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
18	reacting	react	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **make** | participle |  | Gas *not said here* |  | a closed container |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | present | Gas |  |  |  |  | on the walls | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on wall=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | the weakest part |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **react** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **burst** | can | reacting chemicals in a closed bottle | gas |  |  |  | dangerously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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