Soap and why washing works, sentence 12

Soap makes the water's skin flexible so it does not snap, which is why plain water cannot be blown into bubbles; a little glycerine or sugar makes bubbles last longer.

Who acts: Soap, little glycerine, bubbles · What happens: make, not snap, be, not blow, last · To what, where: skin, plain water, bubbles

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 (Soap, little glycerine, bubbles), 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	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 water	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
7	flexible	flexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 snap	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 snap	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 snap	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 snap	advmod
12	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 why	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 why	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 makes	conj
17	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blown	nsubj:pass
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 blown	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 blown	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 blown	aux:pass
22	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 why	acl:relcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 bubbles	case
24	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blown	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 glycerine	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 glycerine	amod
28	glycerine	glycerine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 makes	nsubj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 sugar	cc
30	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glycerine	conj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	parataxis
32	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 makes	obj
33	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 makes	xcomp
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 last	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Soap	the water's skin		flexible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skin=Product
2	not snap	present · do-support	soap				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	not blow	can · passive		plain water	bubbles		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into bubble=Product
5	make	present	a little glycerine or sugar	bubbles			tree rules
6	last	infinitive	bubbles not said here			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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, 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:12.

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.

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