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title: If they cancel exactly, they make water and a salt, a chemist's word… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: If they cancel exactly, they make water and a salt, a chemist's word for a whole family of substances, not only the salt on your chips. Who acts: they, chemist. 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
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 3

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If they cancel exactly, they make water and a salt, a chemist's word for a whole family of substances, not only the salt on your chips.

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**Who acts:** they, chemist · **What happens:** cancel, make, word · **To what, where:** water

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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 (they, chemist), 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:3
# text = If they cancel exactly, they make water and a salt, a chemist's word for a whole family of substances, not only the salt on your chips.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cancel	cancel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
14	chemist	chemist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cancel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | they | water and a salt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |
| 3 | **word** |  | a chemist |  |  |  |  | for a whole family of substances | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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