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title: Gummy bears are poured into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour, bo… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Gummy bears are poured into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour, boiled sweets are really a kind of sugar glass, and shiny coloured sweets get their shells by tumbling in a drum for hours. Who acts: boiled sweets, shiny coloured sweets. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technol
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# Chocolate and sweets, sentence 2

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Gummy bears are poured into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour, boiled sweets are really a kind of sugar glass, and shiny coloured sweets get their shells by tumbling in a drum for hours.

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**Who acts:** boiled sweets, shiny coloured sweets · **What happens:** pour, press, boil, be, colour, get · **To what, where:** Gummy bears, shapes, trays, kind, shells

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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 (boiled sweets, shiny coloured 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:2
# text = Gummy bears are poured into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour, boiled sweets are really a kind of sugar glass, and shiny coloured sweets get their shells by tumbling in a drum 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Gummy	gummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trays	tray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cornflour	cornflour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
13	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pour** | present · passive |  | Gummy bears |  | shapes |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into shape=Destination |
| 2 | **press** | participle |  | shapes *not said here* |  | trays of cornflour |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | boiled sweets | a kind |  |  |  | of sugar glass | tree rules |
| 5 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | present | shiny coloured sweets | sweets's shells |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus |
| 7 | **tumble** | gerund | shiny coloured sweets *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | in a drum | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drum=Attribute |

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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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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