Soap and why washing works, sentence 15
In history, soap was made by boiling fat with lye from wood ash; the alkali breaks fats into soap, and lye is very caustic.
Who acts: boiling fat, alkali, lye · What happens: make, break, be · To what, where: soap, history, fats
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 (boiling fat, alkali, lye), 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 | _ | 2 history | case |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 history | punct |
| 4 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 fat | case |
| 8 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fat | compound |
| 9 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lye | case |
| 11 | lye | lye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fat | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ash | case |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ash | compound |
| 14 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lye | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 breaks | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 alkali | det |
| 17 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breaks | nsubj |
| 18 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 19 | fats | fat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breaks | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 soap | case |
| 21 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breaks | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 caustic | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 caustic | cc |
| 24 | lye | lye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caustic | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 caustic | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 caustic | advmod |
| 27 | caustic | caustic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 breaks | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | 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 | make | past · passive | boiling fat with lye from wood ash | soap | history | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | break | present | the alkali | fats | into soap result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent fat=Patient into soap=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | lye | caustic property | tree rules |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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