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title: Blueberries have the same kind of colour substance, so they turn gre… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Blueberries have the same kind of colour substance, so they turn greenish in batter with too much baking soda; a little lemon juice brings the purple back. Who acts: Blueberries, little lemon juice. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's prim
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 11

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Blueberries have the same kind of colour substance, so they turn greenish in batter with too much baking soda; a little lemon juice brings the purple back.

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**Who acts:** Blueberries, little lemon juice · **What happens:** have, turn, bring back · **To what, where:** same kind, batter, purple

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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 (Blueberries, little lemon juice), 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:11
# text = Blueberries have the same kind of colour substance, so they turn greenish in batter with too much baking soda; a little lemon juice brings the purple back.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
30	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Blueberries | the same kind of colour substance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Blueberries *= blueberry* |  |  | batter |  | with much baking soda; greenish *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in batter=Trajectory |
| 3 | **bring back** | present | a little lemon juice | the purple |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent purple=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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