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title: A bath bomb holds a dry acid and baking soda that react only when wa… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: A bath bomb holds a dry acid and baking soda that react only when water lets them meet, making carbon dioxide bubbles. Who acts: bath bomb, dry acid, water, acid. A sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Mixing and dissolving, sentence 14

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A bath bomb holds a dry acid and baking soda that react only when water lets them meet, making carbon dioxide bubbles.

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**Who acts:** bath bomb, dry acid, water, acid · **What happens:** hold, react, let, meet, make · **To what, where:** dry acid, acid, dioxide bubbles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» 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 (bath bomb, dry acid, water, acid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:14
# text = A bath bomb holds a dry acid and baking soda that react only when water lets them meet, making carbon dioxide bubbles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 006-mixing-and-dissolving.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hold** | present | a bath bomb | a dry acid and baking soda |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Theme |
| 2 | **react** | present | a dry acid and baking soda |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | present | water | acid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | infinitive | acid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | a bath bomb *not said here* | dioxide bubbles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |

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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:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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