Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 19
Baking soda is a mild alkali and a gentle scrub that helps loosen burnt food; mixing it with vinegar makes fizz that uses both up and does little cleaning.
Who acts: Baking soda, gentle scrub, mixing, fizz · What happens: be, help, loosen, burn, mix, make · To what, where: mild alkali, burnt food, food, fizz, both, little cleaning
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 (Baking soda, gentle scrub, mixing, fizz), 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 | Baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soda | compound |
| 2 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alkali | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 alkali | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 alkali | det |
| 5 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 alkali | amod |
| 6 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scrub | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scrub | det |
| 9 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scrub | amod |
| 10 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alkali | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 helps | nsubj |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scrub | acl:relcl |
| 13 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 14 | burnt | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 food | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loosen | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 17 | mixing | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 makes | csubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mixing | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 vinegar | case |
| 20 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mixing | obl |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 alkali | parataxis |
| 22 | fizz | fizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 uses | nsubj |
| 24 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fizz | acl:relcl |
| 25 | both | both | PRON | _ | 24 uses | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 uses | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 does | cc |
| 28 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 uses | conj |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cleaning | amod |
| 30 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 does | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alkali | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Baking soda | a mild alkali and a gentle scrub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | a gentle scrub | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | loosen | infinitive | a gentle scrub not said here | burnt food | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | mix | gerund | food | with vinegar | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with vinegar=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | present | mixing | fizz | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fizz=Product | ||||
| 7 | use up | present | fizz | both | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient | ||||
| 8 | do | present | fizz not said here | little cleaning | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality |
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:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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