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title: Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap. Who acts: Yellow turmeric, curry stain. 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
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 18

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Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap.

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**Who acts:** Yellow turmeric, curry stain · **What happens:** turn, wash

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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 (Yellow turmeric, curry stain), 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:18
# text = Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
2	turmeric	turmeric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **turn** | present | Yellow turmeric |  |  |  |  | with a alkali; brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | can | a curry stain |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | participle | a curry stain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument |

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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:18`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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