Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 3

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 · What happens: think, seem, be, keep, stop, crush · To what, where: crisps

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 (you, crisp bag, yoghurt, nitrogen 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 bag	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bag	amod
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bag	acl:relcl
8	half	half	ADV	_	9 empty	advmod
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seems	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 full	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 full	cop
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 gas	case
15	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gas	compound
16	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keeps	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 keeps	nsubj
19	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gas	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crisps	det
21	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keeps	obj
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keeps	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stops	cc
24	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 keeps	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stops	obj
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 crushed	aux:pass
27	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stops	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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.

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