Soap and why washing works, sentence 4
Soap weakens the "skin" of water, its surface tension.
Who acts: Soap · What happens: weaken, tense · To what, where: skin
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), 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 | 2 weakens | nsubj |
| 2 | weakens | weaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weakens | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tension | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tension | nmod:poss |
| 11 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tension | compound |
| 12 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 weakens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | present | Soap | the skin of water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tense | soap | nom tension «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:4.
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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