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title: Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in a… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way. Who acts: Beetroot juice, plant colour. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 14

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Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.

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**Who acts:** Beetroot juice, plant colour · **What happens:** stay, turn, not change · **To what, where:** alkali, same way

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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 (Beetroot juice, plant colour), 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:14
# text = Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
18	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound
19	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound
20	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **stay** | present | Beetroot juice |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Beetroot juice *not said here* |  |  | alkali |  | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in alkali=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **change** |  | every plant colour | the same way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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