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title: Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witc… — The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda · tree and pragmatics
description: Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron. Who acts: you, vinegar. A sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda, sentence 0

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Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.

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**Who acts:** you, vinegar · **What happens:** pour, froth up · **To what, where:** vinegar, heap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» 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 (you, vinegar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.lesson:0
# text = Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	froths	froth	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | vinegar |  | a heap of baking soda |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent vinegar=Theme onto heap=Destination |
| 2 | **froth up** | present | vinegar |  |  |  |  | like a witch's cauldron | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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