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title: Inside the cabbage is a colour substance whose tiny particles change… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the cabbage is a colour substance whose tiny particles change shape in acid or alkali, and a different shape means a different colour. Who acts: tiny particles, different shape. A sentence of the lesson «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow, sentence 3

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Inside the cabbage is a colour substance whose tiny particles change shape in acid or alkali, and a different shape means a different colour.

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**Who acts:** tiny particles, different shape · **What happens:** be, change, mean · **To what, where:** colour substance, cabbage, shape, acid, different colour

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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 (tiny particles, different shape), 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:3
# text = Inside the cabbage is a colour substance whose tiny particles change shape in acid or alkali, and a different shape means a different colour.
# 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
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | a colour substance |  | the cabbage |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | present | tiny particles | shape |  | acid or alkali |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a different shape | a different colour |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic |

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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): 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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