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title: Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases. Who acts: Dad, alkali, burning. 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 pragma
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 4

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Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases.

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**Who acts:** Dad, alkali, burning · **What happens:** take, cancel, ease · **To what, where:** antacid tablet, stomach acid

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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 (Dad, alkali, burning), 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:4
# text = Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases.
# 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	antacid	antacid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heartburn	heartburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	cancels	cancel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eases	ease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **take** | present | Dad | a antacid tablet |  |  |  | for heartburn | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme for heartburn=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cancel** | present | the alkali in heartburn | some stomach acid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ease** | present | burning |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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.

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