Soap and why washing works, sentence 16

Washing powder contains detergents and enzymes that break down protein and fat stains, so many modern powders work well at 30 °C and save energy.

Who acts: Washing powder, detergents, many modern powders · What happens: contain, break down, work, save · To what, where: detergents, protein, energy

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 (Washing powder, detergents, many modern powders), 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	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 powder	compound
2	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contains	nsubj
3	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	detergents	detergent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contains	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 enzymes	cc
6	enzymes	enzyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 detergents	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 break	nsubj
8	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 detergents	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stains	cc
12	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stains	amod
13	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 protein	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 work	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 work	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 powders	amod
17	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 powders	amod
18	powders	powder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 work	nsubj
19	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 contains	conj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 work	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 30	case
22	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 work	obl
23	°	°	SYM	_	24 C	compound
24	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 30	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 save	cc
26	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 work	conj
27	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 save	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contains	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Washing powder	detergents and enzymes		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot detergent=Theme
2	break down	present	detergents and enzymes	protein and fat stains		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient
3	work	present	many modern powders		at 30 and ° C; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 30=Theme
4	save	present	many modern powders not said here	energy		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R8-pos-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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