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title: Your stomach makes a strong acid to digest food and kill germs, and… — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Your stomach makes a strong acid to digest food and kill germs, and a car battery holds a strong acid that can burn skin and eyes, which is why batteries carry warning signs and must never be opened. Who acts: stomach, car battery, strong acid, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» o
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 7

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Your stomach makes a strong acid to digest food and kill germs, and a car battery holds a strong acid that can burn skin and eyes, which is why batteries carry warning signs and must never be opened.

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**Who acts:** stomach, car battery, strong acid, skin, batteries · **What happens:** make, digest, kill, hold, burn, be · **To what, where:** strong acid, food, germs, skin, warning signs

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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 (stomach, car battery, strong acid, skin), 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:7
# text = Your stomach makes a strong acid to digest food and kill germs, and a car battery holds a strong acid that can burn skin and eyes, which is why batteries carry warning signs and must never be opened.
# 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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl:relcl	_	_
34	warning	warn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | Your stomach | a strong acid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product |
| 2 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Your stomach *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | infinitive | Your stomach *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | present | a car battery | a strong acid |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | can | a strong acid | skin and eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | skin and eyes |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **carry** | present | batteries | warning signs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **open** | must · passive | batteries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V» |

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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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