--- title: Sodium is a soft metal that fizzes wildly in water and chlorine is a… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics description: Sodium is a soft metal that fizzes wildly in water and chlorine is a poisonous gas, but joined together they make a new, safe substance: ordinary table salt. Who acts: Sodium, soft metal, chlorine, gas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sodium, soft metal, chlorine, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:6 # text = Sodium is a soft metal that fizzes wildly in water and chlorine is a poisonous gas, but joined together they make a new, safe substance: ordinary table salt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Sodium sodium NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fizzes fizz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 chlorine chlorine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sodium | a soft metal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fizz** | present | a soft metal | | | water | | wildly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | chlorine | a poisonous gas and a soft metal | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **join** | past | gas *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | gas | a new safe substance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset substance=Product | 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. **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:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/5/) - next →: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/)