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title: Diet cola makes a bigger fountain because its ingredients help bubbl… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: Diet cola makes a bigger fountain because its ingredients help bubbles form even faster; the fountain is done outside, with an adult, at a distance. Who acts: Diet cola, ingredients. A sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 11

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Diet cola makes a bigger fountain because its ingredients help bubbles form even faster; the fountain is done outside, with an adult, at a distance.

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**Who acts:** Diet cola, ingredients · **What happens:** make, help, do · **To what, where:** bigger fountain, bubbles form, fountain

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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 (Diet cola, ingredients), 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:11
# text = Diet cola makes a bigger fountain because its ingredients help bubbles form even faster; the fountain is done outside, with an adult, at a distance.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
2	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | Diet cola | a bigger fountain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fountain=Product |
| 2 | **help** | present | cola's ingredients | bubbles form |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  | the fountain |  |  |  | with a adult; at a distance; outside *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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:11`.

**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, 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/).

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