Acids in the kitchen, sentence 11
Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar.
Who acts: Most germs, pickles · What happens: not grow, keep · To what, where: acid, vinegar
This is a sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» 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 (Most germs, pickles), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 germs | amod |
| 2 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 acid | case |
| 7 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 10 | pickles | pickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 months | case |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keep | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vinegar | case |
| 15 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | can | Most germs | acid | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in acid=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | pickles | vinegar | month | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in vinegar=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, 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:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:11.
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 ×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.
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