Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 12
Litmus paper turns red in acid and blue in alkali; its dye comes from lichens and has been used for hundreds of years.
Who acts: Litmus paper, dye · What happens: turn, come, use · To what, where: lichens
This is a sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» 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 (Litmus paper, dye), 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 | Litmus | litmus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paper | compound |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turns | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 acid | case |
| 6 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blue | cc |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 acid | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 alkali | case |
| 10 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turns | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lichens | case |
| 16 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comes | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 used | cc |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 used | aux |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 comes | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hundreds | case |
| 22 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hundreds | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Litmus paper | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | paper's dye | lichens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lichen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | use | present · perfect · passive | paper's dye not said here | for hundreds of years | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:017-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow.lesson:12.
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): 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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