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title: And a can of ordinary cola hides about seven teaspoons of sugar: the… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: And a can of ordinary cola hides about seven teaspoons of sugar: the acid and fizz cover up the sweetness. Who acts: can, acid. 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 clause.
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# Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 7

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And a can of ordinary cola hides about seven teaspoons of sugar: the acid and fizz cover up the sweetness.

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**Who acts:** can, acid · **What happens:** hide, cover up · **To what, where:** seven teaspoons, sweetness

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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 (can, acid), 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:7
# text = And a can of ordinary cola hides about seven teaspoons of sugar: the acid and fizz cover up the sweetness.
# 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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	teaspoons	teaspoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fizz	fizz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hide** | present | a can of ordinary cola | seven teaspoons of sugar |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teaspoon=Patient |
| 2 | **cover up** | present | the acid and fizz | the sweetness |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sweetness=Destination |

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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:7`.

**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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