Acids in the kitchen, sentence 13
Acid softens tooth enamel for a short time, so it is better to wait a while after a fizzy drink before brushing.
Who acts: Acid · What happens: soften, be, wait, brush · To what, where: tooth enamel
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 (Acid), 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 | Acid | acid | NOUN | _ | 2 softens | nsubj |
| 2 | softens | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enamel | compound |
| 4 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 softens | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 softens | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 better | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 better | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 better | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 better | cop |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 softens | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wait | mark |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 better | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wait | obl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 drink | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 drink | det |
| 20 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 drink | amod |
| 21 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wait | obl |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 brushing | mark |
| 23 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 wait | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 softens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | Acid | tooth enamel | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | after a fizzy drink; while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | brush | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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