Soap and why washing works, sentence 19

Alcohol hand gel kills many germs by damaging their outer coat, but it does not remove dirt, works poorly on dirty hands, is flammable and must not be swallowed.

Who acts: hand gel, gel · What happens: kill, damaging, not remove, work, be, not swallow · To what, where: many germs, outer coat, dirt

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 (hand gel, gel), 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	Alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hand	compound
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gel	compound
3	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 germs	amod
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 damaging	mark
8	damaging	damaging	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kills	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coat	nmod:poss
10	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coat	amod
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 damaging	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remove	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 remove	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remove	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 remove	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 remove	advmod
17	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kills	conj
18	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remove	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 works	punct
20	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 remove	conj
21	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	20 works	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hands	amod
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 works	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flammable	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 flammable	cop
27	flammable	flammable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remove	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swallowed	cc
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 swallowed	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 swallowed	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 swallowed	aux:pass
32	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 flammable	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kills	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present	hand gel	many germs		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	damaging	gerund	hand gel not said here	germs's outer coat		tree rules
3	not remove	present · do-support	gel	dirt		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme
4	work	present	gel not said here		on dirty hands; poorly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme
5	is	present			flammable property	tree rules
6	not swallow	must · passive				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»

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:19.

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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