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title: Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics
description: Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter and soapy, not sour. Who acts: Baking soda, alkali. 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 8

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Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter and soapy, not sour.

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**Who acts:** Baking soda, alkali · **What happens:** be, taste · **To what, where:** mild alkali

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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 (Baking soda, alkali), 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:8
# text = Baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is a mild alkali; it tastes bitter and soapy, not sour.
# 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	Baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bicarbonate	bicarbonate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | Baking soda | a mild alkali |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | present | alkali |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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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