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title: A burp after a fizzy drink is the carbon dioxide coming back up; ast… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: A burp after a fizzy drink is the carbon dioxide coming back up; astronauts find burping hard because gas and liquid do not separate without gravity. Who acts: burp, carbon dioxide, astronauts, gas. A sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary sc
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 19

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A burp after a fizzy drink is the carbon dioxide coming back up; astronauts find burping hard because gas and liquid do not separate without gravity.

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**Who acts:** burp, carbon dioxide, astronauts, gas · **What happens:** be, come back, find, burp, not separate · **To what, where:** carbon dioxide

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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 (burp, carbon dioxide, astronauts, gas), 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:19
# text = A burp after a fizzy drink is the carbon dioxide coming back up; astronauts find burping hard because gas and liquid do not separate without gravity.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burp	burp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	burping	burp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | a burp after a fizzy drink | the carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | gerund | the carbon dioxide *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | astronauts |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **burp** | gerund | astronauts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **separate** | present · do-support | gas and liquid |  |  |  |  | without gravity | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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