--- title: Hydrangeas growing in acidic soil take in aluminium and turn blue; i… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics description: Hydrangeas growing in acidic soil take in aluminium and turn blue; in alkaline soil they stay pink, so changing the soil can change the colour. Who acts: Hydrangeas, changing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hydrangeas, changing), 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:18 # text = Hydrangeas growing in acidic soil take in aluminium and turn blue; in alkaline soil they stay pink, so changing the soil can change the colour. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hydrangeas hydrangea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 acidic acidic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 alkaline alkaline NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 18 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | Hydrangeas *not said here* | | | acidic soil | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | | 2 | **take in** | present | Hydrangeas | aluminium | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aluminium=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | Hydrangeas *not said here* | | | | | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | present | Hydrangeas *= hydrangea* | | | alkaline soil | | pink *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | | 5 | **change** | gerund | | the soil | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | | 6 | **change** | can | changing | the colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | 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. **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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/17/) - next →: [Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/)