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title: In class, a teacher can have you breathe out gently through a straw… — Gases all around: breath and balloons · tree and pragmatics
description: In class, a teacher can have you breathe out gently through a straw into clear lime water, and it goes milky: carbon dioxide reacts with it and makes tiny bits of chalk. Who acts: teacher, you, carbon dioxide. A sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry course o
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# Gases all around: breath and balloons, sentence 2

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In class, a teacher can have you breathe out gently through a straw into clear lime water, and it goes milky: carbon dioxide reacts with it and makes tiny bits of chalk.

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**Who acts:** teacher, you, carbon dioxide · **What happens:** have, breathe out, go, react, make · **To what, where:** you, class, straw, tiny bits

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» 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 (teacher, you, carbon dioxide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.lesson:2
# text = In class, a teacher can have you breathe out gently through a straw into clear lime water, and it goes milky: carbon dioxide reacts with it and makes tiny bits of chalk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reacts	react	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **have** | can | a teacher | you |  | class |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a straw |  | into clear lime water; gently *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present | teacher |  |  |  |  | milky *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **react** | present | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | with teacher | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** | present | carbon dioxide *not said here* | tiny bits of chalk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bit=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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**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:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.lesson:2`.

**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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