Soap and why washing works, sentence 6
Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.
Who acts: Soapy water, you, free bubble · What happens: make, blow, pull · To what, where: stretchy film, bubbles, film, ball
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 (Soapy water, you, free bubble), 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 | Soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 makes | advmod |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 6 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 film | amod |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 blow | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | aux |
| 11 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 film | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bubbles | case |
| 13 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blow | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulls | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulls | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bubble | det |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bubble | amod |
| 18 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulls | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 pulls | advmod |
| 20 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | conj |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 pulls | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 ball | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ball | det |
| 24 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulls | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | 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 | make | present | Soapy water | a stretchy film | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset film=Product | ||||
| 2 | blow | can | you | a stretchy film | bubbles | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into bubble=Product | |||
| 3 | pull | present | a free bubble | film | a ball | always property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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:6.
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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