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description: Fizzy drinks are slightly acidic, because carbon dioxide in water makes a weak acid, and some colas also have phosphoric acid added. Who acts: Fizzy drinks, carbon dioxide, colas, phosphoric acid. A sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 12

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Fizzy drinks are slightly acidic, because carbon dioxide in water makes a weak acid, and some colas also have phosphoric acid added.

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**Who acts:** Fizzy drinks, carbon dioxide, colas, phosphoric acid · **What happens:** be, make, have, add · **To what, where:** weak acid, phosphoric acid

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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 (Fizzy drinks, carbon dioxide, colas, phosphoric acid), 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:12
# text = Fizzy drinks are slightly acidic, because carbon dioxide in water makes a weak acid, and some colas also have phosphoric acid added.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	colas	cola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	phosphoric	phosphoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Fizzy drinks |  |  |  |  | acidic, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | carbon dioxide in water | a weak acid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product |
| 3 | **have** | present | some colas | phosphoric acid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | phosphoric acid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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): R2-punct-next ×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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