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title: Ants and nettles inject formic acid and other chemicals that irritat… — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ants and nettles inject formic acid and other chemicals that irritate the nerves in your skin. Who acts: Ants, chemicals. 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 16

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Ants and nettles inject formic acid and other chemicals that irritate the nerves in your skin.

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**Who acts:** Ants, chemicals · **What happens:** inject, irritate · **To what, where:** formic acid, nerves, skin

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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 (Ants, chemicals), 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:16
# text = Ants and nettles inject formic acid and other chemicals that irritate the nerves in your skin.
# 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 ×2
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	inject	inject	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	formic	formic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	irritate	irritate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inject** | present | Ants and nettles | formic acid and chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Patient |
| 2 | **irritate** | present | chemicals | the nerves |  | your skin |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nerve=Experiencer |

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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:16`.

**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 ×2. **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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