Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 5
Scientists use indicators too: litmus paper, made from lichens, turns red in acid and blue in alkali.
Who acts: Scientists, litmus paper · What happens: use, make, turn · To what, where: indicators, litmus paper, 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 (Scientists, litmus paper), 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 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | indicators | indicator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 use | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 paper | punct |
| 6 | litmus | litmus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paper | compound |
| 7 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 paper | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lichens | case |
| 11 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 red | punct |
| 13 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 use | parataxis |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turns | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 acid | case |
| 16 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 red | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blue | cc |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 red | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 alkali | case |
| 20 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blue | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | 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 | use | present | Scientists | indicators | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indicator=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | litmus paper not said here | lichens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from lichen=Material | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | litmus paper | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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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