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title: Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice. — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 0

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Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** chop, soak, get · **To what, where:** red cabbage, cabbage, purple juice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:017-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow.lesson:0
# text = Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 017-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow.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	Chop	chop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	soak	soak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **chop** | imperative | you *not said here* | red cabbage |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient |
| 2 | **soak** | infinitive | you *not said here* | cabbage |  |  |  | in hot water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in water=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | you | a purple juice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer juice=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:017-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow.lesson:0`.

**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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