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title: Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles get their shells by panning: the… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles get their shells by panning: they tumble in big rotating drums while thin coats of sugar syrup and colour are sprayed on and dried, coat after coat, for hours. Who acts: Shiny coloured sweets, sweets. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technolo
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# Chocolate and sweets, sentence 16

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Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles get their shells by panning: they tumble in big rotating drums while thin coats of sugar syrup and colour are sprayed on and dried, coat after coat, for hours.

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**Who acts:** Shiny coloured sweets, sweets · **What happens:** get, pan, tumble, rotate, spray, dry · **To what, where:** shells, coat, thin coats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (Shiny coloured sweets, sweets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:16
# text = Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles get their shells by panning: they tumble in big rotating drums while thin coats of sugar syrup and colour are sprayed on and dried, coat after coat, for hours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sprinkles	sprinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	panning	pan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tumble	tumble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	rotating	rotate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	sprayed	spray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **get** | present | Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles | sweets's shells |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pan** | gerund | Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tumble** | present | sweets *= sweet* | coat after coat |  |  | hour | in big rotating drums | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drum=Attribute |
| 4 | **rotate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spray** | present · passive |  | thin coats of sugar syrup and colour |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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