Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 4
Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases.
Who acts: Dad, alkali, burning · What happens: take, cancel, ease · To what, where: antacid tablet, stomach acid
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 (Dad, alkali, burning), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tablet | det |
| 4 | antacid | antacid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tablet | compound |
| 5 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 heartburn | case |
| 7 | heartburn | heartburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tablet | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 alkali | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 alkali | det |
| 10 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cancels | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 alkali | nmod |
| 13 | cancels | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | parataxis |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 acid | det |
| 15 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 acid | compound |
| 16 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cancels | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eases | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eases | det |
| 19 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eases | nsubj |
| 20 | eases | ease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cancels | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Dad | a antacid tablet | for heartburn | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme for heartburn=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | cancel | present | the alkali in heartburn | some stomach acid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ease | present | burning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:4.
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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