--- title: Mints dropped into cola make a fizzy fountain and a sticky mess, not… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics description: Mints dropped into cola make a fizzy fountain and a sticky mess, not an explosion; a bottle with its lid screwed on is different and should never be used. Who acts: Mints, bottle. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Petrol stations, pools and things that…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/) / 16 # Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 16 Mints dropped into cola make a fizzy fountain and a sticky mess, not an explosion; a bottle with its lid screwed on is different and should never be used. **Who acts:** Mints, bottle · **What happens:** drop, make, screw on, be, not use · **To what, where:** Mints, cola, fizzy fountain, bottle This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 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, bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:16 # text = Mints dropped into cola make a fizzy fountain and a sticky mess, not an explosion; a bottle with its lid screwed on is different and should never be used. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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 5 nsubj _ _ 2 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 cola cola NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 screwed screw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | participle | | Mints *not said here* | | cola | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cola=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | present | Mints | a fizzy fountain and a sticky mess and a explosion | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fountain=Product | | 3 | **screw on** | participle | | a bottle with bottle's lid *not said here* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | a bottle with bottle's lid | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **use** | should · passive | a bottle with bottle's lid *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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. **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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:16`. **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. 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