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title: Gardeners spread lime, an alkali, on sour soil for the same reason. — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Gardeners spread lime, an alkali, on sour soil for the same reason. Who acts: Gardeners. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids, sentence 5

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Gardeners spread lime, an alkali, on sour soil for the same reason.

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**Who acts:** Gardeners · **What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** lime, sour soil

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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), 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:5
# text = Gardeners spread lime, an alkali, on sour soil for the same reason.
# 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	spread	spread	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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | Gardeners | lime |  | sour soil |  | for the same reason | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lime=Theme on soil=Destination |

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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:5`.

**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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