Soap and why washing works, sentence 3

Soap also breaks apart many germs, which is why washing your hands properly, for about 20 seconds, or two rounds of "Happy Birthday", helps stop illness.

Who acts: Soap, many germs · What happens: break apart, be, wash, help, stop · To what, where: many germs, hands, illness

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, many germs), 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	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 breaks	advmod
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 germs	amod
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breaks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 why	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 germs	acl:relcl
11	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 helps	nsubj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 washing	obj
14	properly	properly	ADV	_	11 washing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seconds	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 seconds	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 20	advmod
18	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 seconds	nummod
19	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 washing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rounds	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 rounds	cc
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 rounds	nummod
23	rounds	round	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seconds	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Birthday	case
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Birthday	punct
26	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Birthday	amod
27	Birthday	birthday	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 rounds	nmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Birthday	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stop	punct
30	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	ccomp
31	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 helps	xcomp
32	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stop	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break apart	present	Soap	many germs			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient
2	is	present	many germs			why property	tree rules
3	wash	gerund		your hands	second	properly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	stop	infinitive		illness			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality illness=Eventuality

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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