Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 18

Hydrangeas growing in acidic soil take in aluminium and turn blue; in alkaline soil they stay pink, so changing the soil can change the colour.

Who acts: Hydrangeas, changing · What happens: grow, take in, turn, stay, change · To what, where: acidic soil, aluminium, alkaline soil, soil, colour

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 (Hydrangeas, changing), 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	Hydrangeas	hydrangea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	nsubj
2	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hydrangeas	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 growing	obl
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turn	cc
10	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turn	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stay	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 soil	case
14	alkaline	alkaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soil	compound
15	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stay	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stay	nsubj
17	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
18	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stay	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changing	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 changing	advmod
21	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 change	csubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 soil	det
23	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changing	obj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 change	aux
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stay	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 colour	det
27	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	Hydrangeas not said here		acidic soil		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location
2	take in	present	Hydrangeas	aluminium			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aluminium=Theme
3	turn	present	Hydrangeas not said here			blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	present	Hydrangeas = hydrangea		alkaline soil	pink property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location
5	change	gerund		the soil			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
6	change	can	changing	the colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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