Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 8
Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter and soapy, not sour.
Who acts: Baking soda, alkali · What happens: be, taste · To what, where: mild 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 (Baking soda, alkali), 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 | Baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soda | compound |
| 2 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alkali | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 bicarbonate | punct |
| 4 | bicarbonate | bicarbonate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soda | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soda | case |
| 6 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bicarbonate | nmod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 bicarbonate | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 alkali | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 alkali | det |
| 10 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 alkali | amod |
| 11 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tastes | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tastes | nsubj |
| 14 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 alkali | parataxis |
| 15 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tastes | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soapy | cc |
| 17 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bitter | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sour | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sour | advmod |
| 20 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bitter | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 alkali | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Baking soda | a mild alkali | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste | present | alkali | bitter property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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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