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title: Add a splash of vinegar and it turns pink; add a pinch of baking sod… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Add a splash of vinegar and it turns pink; add a pinch of baking soda and it turns blue-green. Who acts: you, splash, vinegar. 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 1

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Add a splash of vinegar and it turns pink; add a pinch of baking soda and it turns blue-green.

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**Who acts:** you, splash, vinegar · **What happens:** add, turn, splash, pinch · **To what, where:** splash, pinch, baking soda

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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, splash, vinegar), 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:1
# text = Add a splash of vinegar and it turns pink; add a pinch of baking soda and it turns blue-green.
# 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	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a splash of vinegar |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splash=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | present | splash |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a pinch of baking soda |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present | splash |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **splash** |  | vinegar |  |  |  |  |  | nom splash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **pinch** |  |  | baking soda |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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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