Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 3
Inside the cabbage is a colour substance whose tiny particles change shape in acid or alkali, and a different shape means a different colour.
Who acts: tiny particles, different shape · What happens: be, change, mean · To what, where: colour substance, cabbage, shape, acid, different colour
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 (tiny particles, different shape), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 cabbage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cabbage | det |
| 3 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 substance | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 substance | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 substance | det |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 substance | compound |
| 7 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 particles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 particles | amod |
| 10 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 change | nsubj |
| 11 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 substance | acl:relcl |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 acid | case |
| 14 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 alkali | cc |
| 16 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acid | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 means | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shape | det |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shape | amod |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 substance | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 colour | det |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 colour | amod |
| 25 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 substance | 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 | a colour substance | the cabbage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | tiny particles | shape | acid or alkali | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | |||
| 3 | mean | present | a different shape | a different colour | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic |
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: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): 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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