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title: Suck a slice of lemon and your whole face screws up. — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Suck a slice of lemon and your whole face screws up. Who acts: you, whole face. A sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 0

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Suck a slice of lemon and your whole face screws up.

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**Who acts:** you, whole face · **What happens:** suck, screw up, slice · **To what, where:** slice, lemon

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» 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 (you, whole face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:0
# text = Suck a slice of lemon and your whole face screws up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Suck	suck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	screws	screw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | imperative | you *not said here* | a slice of lemon |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slice=Source |
| 2 | **screw up** | present | your whole face |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **slice** |  |  | lemon |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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