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title: Bubbles start at tiny places like scratches or specks; some glasses… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: Bubbles start at tiny places like scratches or specks; some glasses have marks etched in the bottom to make a stream of bubbles on purpose. Who acts: Bubbles, glasses. A sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 12

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Bubbles start at tiny places like scratches or specks; some glasses have marks etched in the bottom to make a stream of bubbles on purpose.

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**Who acts:** Bubbles, glasses · **What happens:** start, have, etch, make · **To what, where:** tiny places, marks, bottom, stream

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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 (Bubbles, glasses), 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:12
# text = Bubbles start at tiny places like scratches or specks; some glasses have marks etched in the bottom to make a stream of bubbles on purpose.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	scratches	scratch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
14	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	etched	etch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **start** | present | Bubbles |  |  | tiny places like scratches or specks |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | some glasses | marks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 3 | **etch** | participle |  | marks *not said here* |  | the bottom |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bottom=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a stream of bubbles on purpose |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stream=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): 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.

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