Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 3

If they cancel exactly, they make water and a salt, a chemist's word for a whole family of substances, not only the salt on your chips.

Who acts: they, chemist · What happens: cancel, make, word · 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 (they, chemist), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 cancel	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cancel	nsubj
3	cancel	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	advcl
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 cancel	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cancel	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 salt	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 salt	det
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 word	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chemist	det
14	chemist	chemist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 chemist	case
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 salt	appos
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 family	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 family	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 substances	case
22	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 family	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 salt	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 salt	advmod
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 salt	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 salt	det
27	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	appos
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 chips	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 chips	nmod:poss
30	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 salt	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cancel a condition, not said to happen	present	they		exactly property	tree rules
2	make	present	they	water and a salt		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product
3	word		a chemist		for a whole family of substances	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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