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title: Dock leaves on nettle stings help mostly because rubbing and coolnes… — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Dock leaves on nettle stings help mostly because rubbing and coolness soothe; they are not a strong chemical cure. Who acts: Dock leaves, rubbing. 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 cla
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 17

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Dock leaves on nettle stings help mostly because rubbing and coolness soothe; they are not a strong chemical cure.

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**Who acts:** Dock leaves, rubbing · **What happens:** help, soothe, not be · **To what, where:** strong chemical cure

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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 (Dock leaves, rubbing), 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:17
# text = Dock leaves on nettle stings help mostly because rubbing and coolness soothe; they are not a strong chemical cure.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	coolness	coolness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	soothe	soothe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **help** | present | Dock leaves on nettle stings |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **soothe** | present | rubbing and coolness |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | rubbing | a strong chemical cure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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