Soap and why washing works, sentence 14
In hard-water areas, minerals in the water react with soap to make grey scum, and kettles get white crusts of limescale.
Who acts: minerals, kettles · What happens: react, make, get · To what, where: water areas, grey scum, white crusts
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 (minerals, kettles), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 areas | case |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 areas | compound |
| 5 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 react | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 areas | punct |
| 7 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 react | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 minerals | nmod |
| 11 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 soap | case |
| 13 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 react | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 react | advcl |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scum | amod |
| 17 | scum | scum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 20 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 react | conj |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 crusts | amod |
| 23 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 limescale | case |
| 25 | limescale | limescale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crusts | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 react | punct |
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 | react | present | minerals in the water | water areas | with soap | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with soap=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | minerals in the water not said here | grey scum | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scum=Product | ||||
| 3 | get | present | kettles | white crusts of limescale | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Stimulus |
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: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.
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