Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 15

Gardeners add lime, an alkali, to make sour soil less acidic; blueberries and rhododendrons like acidic soil, so they are not limed.

Who acts: Gardeners, blueberries · What happens: add, make, like, not lime · To what, where: lime, sour soil, acidic soil, blueberries

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 (Gardeners, blueberries), 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	Gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 add	nsubj
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 alkali	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 alkali	det
6	alkali	alkali	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lime	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 add	advcl
10	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soil	amod
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 acidic	advmod
13	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct
15	blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 like	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rhododendrons	cc
17	rhododendrons	rhododendron	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blueberries	conj
18	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 add	conj
19	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soil	amod
20	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 like	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 limed	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 limed	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 limed	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 limed	aux:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 limed	advmod
26	limed	lime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 like	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Gardeners	lime		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lime=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	Gardeners not said here	sour soil	acidic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product
3	like	present	blueberries and rhododendrons	acidic soil		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soil=Theme
4	not lime	present · passive		blueberries = blueberry		tree rules

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:15.

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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