Soap and why washing works, sentence 17
Foam is just lots of bubbles; soap particles do the cleaning whether there is foam or not.
Who acts: Foam, soap particles · What happens: be, do · To what, where: lots, cleaning
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 (Foam, soap particles), 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 | Foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lots | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lots | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 lots | advmod |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bubbles | case |
| 6 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lots | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 particles | compound |
| 9 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lots | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cleaning | det |
| 12 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 is | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 16 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 not | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 foam | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lots | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Foam | lots | of bubbles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | present | soap particles | the cleaning | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | be | present | foam | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:17.
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, R5-strong ×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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