Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 13
The rule "bee stings are acid, wasp stings are alkali" is mostly a myth; venom works mainly through proteins, and taking the sting out quickly and cold water help more than kitchen cures.
Who acts: bee stings, wasp stings, rule, venom, cold water · What happens: be, work, take out, help · To what, where: alkali, myth, proteins, sting, more
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 (bee stings, wasp stings, rule, venom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rule | det |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 acid | punct |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stings | compound |
| 5 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acid | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acid | cop |
| 7 | acid | acid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rule | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 alkali | punct |
| 9 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stings | compound |
| 10 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 alkali | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 alkali | cop |
| 12 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acid | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 alkali | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 myth | cop |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 17 myth | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 myth | det |
| 17 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 works | punct |
| 19 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 works | nsubj |
| 20 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 myth | parataxis |
| 21 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 23 proteins | advmod |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 proteins | case |
| 23 | proteins | protein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 works | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taking | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taking | cc |
| 26 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 works | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sting | det |
| 28 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taking | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 taking | compound:prt |
| 30 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 26 taking | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 help | cc |
| 32 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 water | amod |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 help | nsubj |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 taking | conj |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 help | obj |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 cures | case |
| 37 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cures | compound |
| 38 | cures | cure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 more | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bee stings | acid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | wasp stings | alkali | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the rule | a myth | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | work | present | venom | proteins | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take out | gerund | venom not said here | the sting | quickly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Theme | |||
| 6 | help | present | cold water | more | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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