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title: The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something is an acid or an alkali. Who acts: juice, colour, something. 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 claus
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 2

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The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something is an acid or an alkali.

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**Who acts:** juice, colour, something · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** indicator, you, acid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (juice, colour, something), 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:2
# text = The juice is an indicator: a colour that tells you whether something is an acid or an alkali.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	indicator	indicator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the juice | a indicator |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a colour |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | something | a acid or a alkali |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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