Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola, sentence 2
A gas bubble needs a tiny place to get started: a scratch in a glass, a speck of dust, a raisin's wrinkly skin.
Who acts: gas bubble · What happens: need, start · To what, where: tiny place
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 (gas bubble), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bubble | det |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bubble | compound |
| 3 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 started | mark |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 started | aux:pass |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 place | acl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 scratch | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 scratch | det |
| 13 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 glass | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 glass | det |
| 16 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratch | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speck | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 speck | det |
| 19 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratch | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dust | case |
| 21 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 speck | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 skin | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 raisin | det |
| 24 | raisin | raisin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 skin | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 raisin | case |
| 26 | wrinkly | wrinkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skin | amod |
| 27 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratch | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a gas bubble | a tiny place | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive · passive | a gas bubble not said here | a tiny place not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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: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): 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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