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title: Pool test kits compare the colour of a water sample with drops added… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Pool test kits compare the colour of a water sample with drops added to a colour card; water that is too acidic stings the eyes. Who acts: test kits, water. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 19

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Pool test kits compare the colour of a water sample with drops added to a colour card; water that is too acidic stings the eyes.

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**Who acts:** test kits, water · **What happens:** compare, add, be, sting · **To what, where:** colour, drops, eyes

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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 (test kits, water), 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:19
# text = Pool test kits compare the colour of a water sample with drops added to a colour card; water that is too acidic stings the eyes.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kits	kit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	compare	compare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **compare** | present | test kits | the colour of a water sample |  |  |  | with drops | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient with drop=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | drops *not said here* |  |  |  | to a colour card | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to card=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | acidic *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sting** | present | water | the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |

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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:19`.

**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, R8-pos-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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