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title: Mints dropped into an open bottle of cola make a real fizzy fountain… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: Mints dropped into an open bottle of cola make a real fizzy fountain, but in a body the gas just comes back up as burps; the stomach does not explode. Who acts: Mints, gas, stomach. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 15

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Mints dropped into an open bottle of cola make a real fizzy fountain, but in a body the gas just comes back up as burps; the stomach does not explode.

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**Who acts:** Mints, gas, stomach · **What happens:** drop, make, come back, not explode · **To what, where:** Mints, open bottle, real fizzy fountain, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (Mints, gas, stomach), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:15
# text = Mints dropped into an open bottle of cola make a real fizzy fountain, but in a body the gas just comes back up as burps; the stomach does not explode.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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	Mints	mint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	burps	burp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **drop** | participle |  | Mints *not said here* |  | a open bottle of cola |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bottle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present | Mints | a real fizzy fountain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fountain=Product |
| 3 | **come back** | present | the gas |  |  | a body |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Location |
| 4 | **not** **explode** | present · do-support | the stomach |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): 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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