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title: One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet dr… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet drinks use sweeteners with almost no sugar. Who acts: One can, diet drinks. A sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 18

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One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet drinks use sweeteners with almost no sugar.

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**Who acts:** One can, diet drinks · **What happens:** have, use · **To what, where:** seven teaspoons, sweeteners

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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 (One can, diet drinks), 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:18
# text = One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet drinks use sweeteners with almost no sugar.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
2	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	teaspoons	teaspoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	sweeteners	sweetener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **have** | present | One can of ordinary cola | seven teaspoons of sugar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teaspoon=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | diet drinks | sweeteners |  |  |  | with no sugar | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetener=Patient |

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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:18`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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