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title: Gardeners add lime, an alkali, to make sour soil less acidic; bluebe… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Gardeners add lime, an alkali, to make sour soil less acidic; blueberries and rhododendrons like acidic soil, so they are not limed. Who acts: Gardeners, blueberries. A sentence of the lesson «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 15

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Gardeners add lime, an alkali, to make sour soil less acidic; blueberries and rhododendrons like acidic soil, so they are not limed.

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**Who acts:** Gardeners, blueberries · **What happens:** add, make, like, not lime · **To what, where:** lime, sour soil, acidic soil, blueberries

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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 (Gardeners, blueberries), 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:15
# text = Gardeners add lime, an alkali, to make sour soil less acidic; blueberries and rhododendrons like acidic soil, so they are not limed.
# 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	Gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rhododendrons	rhododendron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	limed	lime	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Gardeners | lime |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lime=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Gardeners *not said here* | sour soil |  |  |  | acidic *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product |
| 3 | **like** | present | blueberries and rhododendrons | acidic soil |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soil=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **lime** | present · passive |  | blueberries *= blueberry* |  |  |  |  | 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:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:15`.

**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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