Soap and why washing works, sentence 0

After pizza your fingers are greasy, and rinsing under the tap does almost nothing: water and grease do not mix.

Who acts: fingers, rinsing, water · What happens: be, rinse, do, not mix · To what, where: tap, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soap and why washing works» 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 (fingers, rinsing, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 pizza	case
2	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greasy	obl
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 greasy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 greasy	cop
6	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 does	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 does	cc
9	rinsing	rinse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 does	csubj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 tap	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tap	det
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rinsing	obl
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 greasy	conj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 nothing	advmod
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 does	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 mix	punct
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mix	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grease	cc
19	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 water	conj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mix	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mix	advmod
22	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 greasy	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 greasy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	your fingers			after pizza	greasy property	tree rules
2	rinse	gerund			the tap			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	rinsing	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	not mix	present · do-support	water and grease					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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, 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:024-soap-and-why-washing-works.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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