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title: Tests found that a spoon in an open fizzy bottle makes no difference… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Tests found that a spoon in an open fizzy bottle makes no difference; a tight lid keeps the fizz best. Who acts: Tests, spoon, tight lid. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 11

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Tests found that a spoon in an open fizzy bottle makes no difference; a tight lid keeps the fizz best.

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**Who acts:** Tests, spoon, tight lid · **What happens:** find, make, keep · **To what, where:** difference, fizz · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (Tests, spoon, tight lid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:11
# text = Tests found that a spoon in an open fizzy bottle makes no difference; a tight lid keeps the fizz best.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fizz	fizz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Tests |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a spoon in a open fizzy bottle | no difference |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a tight lid | the fizz |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fizz=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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**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:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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