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title: In the Mentos and cola fountain, tiny pits on the rough sweets help… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Mentos and cola fountain, tiny pits on the rough sweets help bubbles form very fast; it is mainly physics, not a chemical reaction. Who acts: tiny pits, form. A sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 10

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In the Mentos and cola fountain, tiny pits on the rough sweets help bubbles form very fast; it is mainly physics, not a chemical reaction.

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**Who acts:** tiny pits, form · **What happens:** help, be · **To what, where:** bubbles, physics, Mentos

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» 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 (tiny pits, form), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:019-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola.lesson:10
# text = In the Mentos and cola fountain, tiny pits on the rough sweets help bubbles form very fast; it is mainly physics, not a chemical reaction.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 019-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
3	Mentos	Mentos	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
15	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	physics	physic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **help** | present | tiny pits on the rough sweets | bubbles |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | present | form | physics and a chemical reaction |  | Mentos and cola and the fountain |  | mainly *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:chemistry:019-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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