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title: Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar. — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar. Who acts: Most germs, pickles. 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 11

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Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar.

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**Who acts:** Most germs, pickles · **What happens:** not grow, keep · **To what, where:** acid, vinegar

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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 (Most germs, pickles), 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:11
# text = Most germs cannot grow in acid, so pickles keep for months in vinegar.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	pickles	pickle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **grow** | can | Most germs |  |  | acid |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in acid=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present | pickles |  |  | vinegar | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in vinegar=Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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