Soap and why washing works, sentence 2

Each soap particle has a water-loving head and a grease-loving tail; the tails grab the grease and the heads pull it into the water.

Who acts: soap particle, tails, heads · What happens: have, grab, pull · To what, where: water loving head, grease, water

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 (soap particle, tails, heads), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 particle	det
2	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 particle	compound
3	particle	particle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 head	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
8	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tail	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tail	det
12	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grease	punct
14	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tail	amod
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grab	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tails	det
18	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grab	nsubj
19	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grease	det
21	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grab	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pull	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 heads	det
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pull	nsubj
25	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grab	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pull	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pull	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	each soap particle	a water loving head and a grease loving tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	grab	present	the tails	the grease		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme
3	pull	present	the heads	grease	the water	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:2.

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): 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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