Acids in the kitchen, sentence 7
Your stomach makes a strong acid to digest food and kill germs, and a car battery holds a strong acid that can burn skin and eyes, which is why batteries carry warning signs and must never be opened.
Who acts: stomach, car battery, strong acid, skin, batteries · What happens: make, digest, kill, hold, burn, be · To what, where: strong acid, food, germs, skin, warning signs
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 (stomach, car battery, strong acid, skin), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 acid | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 acid | amod |
| 6 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 digest | mark |
| 8 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 acid | acl |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 digest | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 digest | conj |
| 12 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 holds | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 holds | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 battery | det |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 battery | compound |
| 17 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holds | nsubj |
| 18 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 acid | det |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 acid | amod |
| 21 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holds | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 burn | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 burn | aux |
| 24 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 acid | acl:relcl |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burn | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 eyes | cc |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 skin | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 why | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 why | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | cop |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 skin | acl:relcl |
| 32 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 carry | nsubj |
| 33 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | advcl:relcl |
| 34 | warning | warn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 signs | compound |
| 35 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 carry | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 opened | cc |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 opened | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 opened | advmod |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 opened | aux:pass |
| 40 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 carry | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | 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 | make | present | Your stomach | a strong acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | ||||
| 2 | digest | to-infinitive | Your stomach not said here | food | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | Your stomach not said here | germs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | present | a car battery | a strong acid | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burn | can | a strong acid | skin and eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | skin and eyes | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry | present | batteries | warning signs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not open | must · passive | batteries not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:7.
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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