--- title: Baking soda is a mild alkali and a gentle scrub that helps loosen bu… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics description: Baking soda is a mild alkali and a gentle scrub that helps loosen burnt food; mixing it with vinegar makes fizz that uses both up and does little cleaning. Who acts: Baking soda, gentle scrub, mixing, fizz. 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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 (Baking soda, gentle scrub, mixing, fizz), 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:19 # text = Baking soda is a mild alkali and a gentle scrub that helps loosen burnt food; mixing it with vinegar makes fizz that uses both up and does little cleaning. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baking baking NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 soda soda NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 alkali alkali NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 scrub scrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 loosen loosen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 14 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 17 mixing mix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 vinegar vinegar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 fizz fizz NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 both both PRON DT _ 24 obj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | Baking soda | a mild alkali and a gentle scrub | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | a gentle scrub | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **loosen** | infinitive | a gentle scrub *not said here* | burnt food | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 4 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mix** | gerund | | food | | | | with vinegar | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with vinegar=Co-Patient | | 6 | **make** | present | mixing | fizz | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fizz=Product | | 7 | **use up** | present | fizz | both | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient | | 8 | **do** | present | fizz *not said here* | little cleaning | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality | 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:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/18/) - next →: [Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/)