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title: Lick a lemon and it is sour; taste a tiny pinch of baking soda and i… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Lick a lemon and it is sour; taste a tiny pinch of baking soda and it is bitter and soapy. Who acts: you, lemon. A sentence of the lesson «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 0

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Lick a lemon and it is sour; taste a tiny pinch of baking soda and it is bitter and soapy.

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**Who acts:** you, lemon · **What happens:** lick, be, taste, pinch · **To what, where:** lemon, tiny pinch, baking soda

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» 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 (you, lemon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:0
# text = Lick a lemon and it is sour; taste a tiny pinch of baking soda and it is bitter and soapy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 016-alkalis-and-soda.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	Lick	lick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	taste	taste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **lick** | imperative | you *not said here* | a lemon |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lemon=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | lemon |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a tiny pinch of baking soda |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme pinch=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | lemon |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | lemon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pinch** |  |  | baking soda |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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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**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:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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