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title: Canned food is sealed in the can first and then the whole can is hea… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Canned food is sealed in the can first and then the whole can is heated, so it keeps for years without a fridge; canning was invented about 200 years ago, and the first cans were opened with a hammer and chisel because the can-opener came later. Who acts: food, can opener. A sentence of the lesson «
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# Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 16

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Canned food is sealed in the can first and then the whole can is heated, so it keeps for years without a fridge; canning was invented about 200 years ago, and the first cans were opened with a hammer and chisel because the can-opener came later.

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**Who acts:** food, can opener · **What happens:** can, seal, heat, keep, invent, open · **To what, where:** Canned food, can, whole can, canning, first cans

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» 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 (food, can opener), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:16
# text = Canned food is sealed in the can first and then the whole can is heated, so it keeps for years without a fridge; canning was invented about 200 years ago, and the first cans were opened with a hammer and chisel because the can-opener came later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.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 ×2
1	Canned	can	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	canning	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	chisel	chisel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	_
49	opener	opener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
51	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	50	advmod	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **can** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seal** | present · passive |  | Canned food |  | the can |  | first *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **heat** | present · passive |  | the whole can |  |  | then |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present | food |  |  |  | year | without a fridge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **invent** | past · passive |  | canning |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 6 | **open** | past · passive |  | the first cans |  |  |  | with a hammer and chisel | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hammer=Instrument |
| 7 | **come** | past | the can opener |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×2. **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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