--- title: In chalk and limestone areas tap water is hard, and heating it leave… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In chalk and limestone areas tap water is hard, and heating it leaves white limescale; limescale is mostly calcium carbonate, like chalk, so it fizzes with acid such as vinegar. Who acts: tap water, heating, limescale. 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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 (tap water, heating, limescale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:13 # text = In chalk and limestone areas tap water is hard, and heating it leaves white limescale; limescale is mostly calcium carbonate, like chalk, so it fizzes with acid such as vinegar. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 6 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 heating heat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 limescale limescale NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 limescale limescale NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 carbonate carbonate NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fizzes fizz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 34 case _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 vinegar vinegar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | tap water | | | chalk areas | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **heat** | gerund | | water | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present | heating | white limescale | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limescale=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | limescale | calcium carbonate | | | | like chalk; mostly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fizz** | present | limescale | | | | | with acid such vinegar | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with acid=Theme | 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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:13`. **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. 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