Soap and why washing works, sentence 7
Long ago people made soap by boiling fat with lye from wood ash, a very harsh alkali, so not a kitchen experiment.
Who acts: people · What happens: make · To what, where: soap
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 (people), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 fat | case |
| 7 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fat | compound |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lye | case |
| 10 | lye | lye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boiling | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 ash | case |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ash | compound |
| 13 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lye | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 alkali | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 alkali | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 harsh | advmod |
| 17 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 alkali | amod |
| 18 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ash | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 experiment | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 experiment | advmod |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 experiment | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 experiment | det |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 experiment | compound |
| 24 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fat | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | people | soap | by boiling fat and a kitchen experiment; ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Product |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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