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title: If the safety button on a new jar lid is already up in the shop, the… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics
description: If the safety button on a new jar lid is already up in the shop, the seal may be broken and the food may be bad. Who acts: safety button, food. A sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 16

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If the safety button on a new jar lid is already up in the shop, the seal may be broken and the food may be bad.

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**Who acts:** safety button, food · **What happens:** be, break · **To what, where:** shop, seal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics 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 (safety button, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:16
# text = If the safety button on a new jar lid is already up in the shop, the seal may be broken and the food may be bad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the safety button on a new jar lid |  |  | the shop |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | may · passive |  | the seal |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | may | the food |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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