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title: Lemon-juice writing is invisible until a grown-up warms the paper, w… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Lemon-juice writing is invisible until a grown-up warms the paper, when the juice turns brown before the paper does; spies once used invisible inks like this. Who acts: juice writing, grown up, juice, paper. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mo
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 20

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Lemon-juice writing is invisible until a grown-up warms the paper, when the juice turns brown before the paper does; spies once used invisible inks like this.

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**Who acts:** juice writing, grown up, juice, paper, spies · **What happens:** be, grow, warm, turn, do, use · **To what, where:** paper, invisible inks

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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 writing, grown up, juice, paper), 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:20
# text = Lemon-juice writing is invisible until a grown-up warms the paper, when the juice turns brown before the paper does; spies once used invisible inks like this.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
26	spies	spy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	inks	ink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | juice writing |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warm** | present | a grown up | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present | the juice |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | the paper |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **use** | participle | spies | invisible inks |  |  |  | like this; once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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