Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 2
When an acid meets an alkali, they react and cancel each other out: this is called neutralisation.
Who acts: acid, they · What happens: meet, react, cancel out, call · To what, where: alkali, each, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (acid, they), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 meets | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 acid | det |
| 3 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meets | nsubj |
| 4 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 react | advcl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 alkali | det |
| 6 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meets | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 react | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 react | nsubj |
| 9 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cancel | cc |
| 11 | cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 react | conj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 cancel | obj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cancel | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 react | parataxis |
| 19 | neutralisation | neutralisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 react | 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 | meet | present | a acid | a alkali | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alkali=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | react | present | they | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cancel out | present | they not said here | each | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:2.
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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