--- title: Balloons are made by dipping balloon-shaped formers (solid shapes to… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics description: Balloons are made by dipping balloon-shaped formers (solid shapes to coat) in liquid latex, the sap of rubber trees; they shrink over a few days because the gas slowly escapes through the rubber. Who acts: Balloons, 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 (Balloons, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:17 # text = Balloons are made by dipping balloon-shaped formers (solid shapes to coat) in liquid latex, the sap of rubber trees; they shrink over a few days because the gas slowly escapes through the rubber. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 007-toys-and-lego.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Balloons balloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 formers former NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 14 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 latex latex NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sap sap NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Balloons | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **dip** | gerund | | shaped formers | | liquid latex | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent former=Theme in latex=Trajectory | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **shrink** | present | Balloons *= balloon* | | | | day | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **escape** | present | the gas | | | the rubber | | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through rubber=Initial\_Location | 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:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:17`. **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 ×4, 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/). - ← previous: [Toys and Lego, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/16/) - next →: [Toys and Lego, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/)