Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 13

An open drink goes flat as the gas slowly escapes; squeezing a half-empty plastic bottle before closing does not keep it fizzier.

Who acts: open drink, gas · What happens: go, escape, squeeze, close, not keep · To what, where: empty plastic bottle, bottle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» of the chemistry 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 (open drink, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 escapes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gas	det
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escapes	nsubj
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 escapes	advmod
10	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 squeezing	punct
12	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 keep	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bottle	det
14	half	half	ADJ	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 empty	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 empty	punct
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bottle	amod
17	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bottle	amod
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squeezing	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 closing	mark
20	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 keep	advcl
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	fizzier	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 keep	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	a open drink		flat property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	present	the gas		slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	squeeze	gerund		a empty plastic bottle		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
4	close	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not keep	present · do-support		bottle	fizzy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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, 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:chemistry:019-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola.lesson:13.

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.

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