Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 6

Scientists measure acids and alkalis on the pH scale from 0 to 14: below 7 is acid, 7 is neutral like pure water, above 7 is alkali.

Who acts: Scientists, 7 · What happens: measure, be · To what, where: acids, pH scale, acid, 7 alkali

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 (Scientists, 7), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 measure	nsubj
2	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	acids	acid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 measure	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 alkalis	cc
5	alkalis	alkali	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 acids	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 scale	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scale	det
8	pH	ph	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scale	compound
9	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 0	case
11	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 measure	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 14	case
13	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 0	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 acid	punct
15	below	below	ADV	_	18 acid	advmod
16	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 acid	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 acid	cop
18	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 neutral	punct
20	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 neutral	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 neutral	cop
22	neutral	neutral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 acid	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 neutral	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alkali	punct
27	above	above	ADP	_	30 alkali	case
28	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 alkali	nummod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 alkali	cop
30	alkali	alkali	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 acid	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 measure	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	measure	present	Scientists	acids and alkalis	the pH scale	from 0 to 14	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme acid=Value
2	is a	present	7	acid		below property	tree rules
3	is	present	7			like pure water; neutral property	tree rules
4	is	present			7 alkali		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:6.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/6/