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title: Sour tastes come from acids; lemons contain citric acid, and sour sw… — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sour tastes come from acids; lemons contain citric acid, and sour sweets are dusted with acid powder that stings the tongue. Who acts: Sour tastes, lemons, acid powder. A sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 8

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Sour tastes come from acids; lemons contain citric acid, and sour sweets are dusted with acid powder that stings the tongue.

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**Who acts:** Sour tastes, lemons, acid powder · **What happens:** come, contain, dust, sting · **To what, where:** acids, citric acid, sour sweets, tongue

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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 (Sour tastes, lemons, acid powder), 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:8
# text = Sour tastes come from acids; lemons contain citric acid, and sour sweets are dusted with acid powder that stings the tongue.
# 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
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	acids	acid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	citric	citric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
13	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	dusted	dust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Sour tastes |  |  | acids |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from acid=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **contain** | present | lemons | citric acid |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acid=Theme |
| 3 | **dust** | present · passive |  | sour sweets |  |  |  | with acid powder | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with powder=Theme |
| 4 | **sting** | present | acid powder | the tongue |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tongue=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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**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. **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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