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title: Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like ov… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly. Who acts: Soap, strong alkalis. 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 e
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 12

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Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly.

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**Who acts:** Soap, strong alkalis · **What happens:** be, feel, burn · **To what, where:** skin

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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 (Soap, strong alkalis), 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:12
# text = Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	alkaline	alkaline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	alkalis	alkali	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Soap |  |  |  |  | alkaline, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Soap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **burn** | can | strong alkalis like oven cleaner | skin |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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

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