Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 12
Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly.
Who acts: Soap, strong alkalis · What happens: be, feel, burn · To what, where: skin
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 (Soap, strong alkalis), 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 | Soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alkaline | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 alkaline | cop |
| 3 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 4 alkaline | advmod |
| 4 | alkaline | alkaline | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feels | cc |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 alkaline | conj |
| 7 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feels | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 burn | punct |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 alkalis | amod |
| 10 | alkalis | alkali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burn | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 cleaner | case |
| 12 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaner | compound |
| 13 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alkalis | nmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 burn | aux |
| 15 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 alkaline | parataxis |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burn | obj |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 burn | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alkaline | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Soap | alkaline, slightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | Soap not said here | slippery property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | burn | can | strong alkalis like oven cleaner | skin | badly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
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:12.
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 ×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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