Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 10
Antacid tablets contain an alkali that cancels some stomach acid; medicines are taken only as an adult or doctor directs.
Who acts: Antacid tablets, alkali · What happens: contain, cancel, take, direct · To what, where: alkali, stomach acid, medicines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» 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 (Antacid tablets, alkali), 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 | Antacid | antacid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tablets | compound |
| 2 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 alkali | det |
| 5 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contain | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cancels | nsubj |
| 7 | cancels | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alkali | acl:relcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 acid | det |
| 9 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acid | compound |
| 10 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cancels | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 12 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cancels | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 adult | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 adult | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 adult | det |
| 18 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 doctor | cc |
| 20 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adult | conj |
| 21 | directs | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Antacid tablets | a alkali | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alkali=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cancel | present | a alkali | some stomach acid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present · passive | medicines | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme adult=Destination | |||||
| 4 | direct | present | vn performance-26.7 «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:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:10.
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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