Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 20
When an acid and an alkali exactly cancel, they make water and a salt; most such salts are not for eating.
Who acts: acid, Hydrangeas, most such salts · What happens: cancel, make, not be · To what, where: water
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, Hydrangeas, most such salts), 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 | _ | 8 cancel | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 acid | det |
| 3 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cancel | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 alkali | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 alkali | det |
| 6 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 acid | conj |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 cancel | advmod |
| 8 | cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 salt | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 salt | det |
| 15 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 water | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 salts | amod |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 salts | amod |
| 19 | salts | salt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eating | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eating | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 eating | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 make | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | present | a acid and a alkali | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Hydrangeas = hydrangea | water and a salt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | most such salts | eat property | 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:20.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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