Soap and why washing works, sentence 5
Sprinkle pepper on water, touch it with a soapy finger, and the pepper races to the edges, pulled by the stronger skin there.
Who acts: you, pepper · What happens: sprinkle, touch, race, pull · To what, where: pepper, water, edges
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 (you, pepper), 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 | Sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprinkle | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprinkle | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sprinkle | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 finger | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 finger | det |
| 10 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 finger | amod |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 races | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 races | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pepper | det |
| 15 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 races | nsubj |
| 16 | races | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sprinkle | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 edges | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 edges | det |
| 19 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 races | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 edges | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 skin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 skin | det |
| 24 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 skin | amod |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obl |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 pulled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sprinkle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | imperative | you not said here | pepper | water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme on water=Destination | |||
| 2 | touch | infinitive | you not said here | pepper | with a soapy finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument | |||
| 3 | race | present | the pepper | the edges | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pull | participle | the edges not said here | there | by the stronger skin | vn slide-11.2 «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:5.
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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