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title: Eggshell and chalk are calcium carbonate, so they fizz in vinegar to… — The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda · tree and pragmatics
description: Eggshell and chalk are calcium carbonate, so they fizz in vinegar too, and geologists test rocks with a drop of acid: limestone fizzes. Who acts: Eggshell, geologists, limestone. A sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda, sentence 6

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Eggshell and chalk are calcium carbonate, so they fizz in vinegar too, and geologists test rocks with a drop of acid: limestone fizzes.

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**Who acts:** Eggshell, geologists, limestone · **What happens:** be, fizz, test · **To what, where:** calcium carbonate, vinegar, rocks

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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 (Eggshell, geologists, limestone), 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:6
# text = Eggshell and chalk are calcium carbonate, so they fizz in vinegar too, and geologists test rocks with a drop of acid: limestone fizzes.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	calcium	calcium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	carbonate	carbonate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fizz	fizz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	geologists	geologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
18	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fizzes	fizz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	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 a** | present | Eggshell and chalk | calcium carbonate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fizz** | present | Eggshell |  |  | vinegar |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vinegar=Location |
| 3 | **test** | present | geologists | rocks |  |  |  | with a drop of acid | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 4 | **fizz** | present | limestone |  |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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