--- title: Think of the crisp bag that seems half empty: it is full of nitrogen… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics description: Think of the crisp bag that seems half empty: it is full of nitrogen gas, which keeps the crisps fresh and stops them being crushed. Who acts: you, crisp bag, yoghurt, nitrogen gas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, crisp bag, yoghurt, nitrogen gas), 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:3 # text = Think of the crisp bag that seems half empty: it is full of nitrogen gas, which keeps the crisps fresh and stops them being crushed. # 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): no change 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 crisp crisp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 half half ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 crisps crisp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of the crisp bag | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **seem** | present | the crisp bag | | | | | empty *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | yoghurt | | | | | of nitrogen gas; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | present | nitrogen gas | the crisps | | | | fresh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | nitrogen gas *not said here* | crisps *= crisp* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **crush** | gerund · passive | nitrogen gas *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | 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. **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:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/2/) - next →: [Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/)