Soap and why washing works, sentence 8

Today washing powders also carry enzymes that break down food stains, and hand gel uses alcohol to kill germs, though it does not lift dirt.

Who acts: washing powders, enzymes, hand gel, gel · What happens: carry, break down, use, kill, not lift · To what, where: enzymes, food stains, alcohol, germs, dirt

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 (washing powders, enzymes, hand gel, gel), 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	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washing	compound
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 powders	compound
3	powders	powder	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 carry	advmod
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	enzymes	enzyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 break	nsubj
8	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enzymes	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stains	compound
11	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 uses	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 uses	cc
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gel	compound
15	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uses	nsubj
16	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	conj
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uses	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 kill	mark
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 uses	advcl
20	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kill	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lift	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 lift	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lift	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lift	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 lift	advmod
26	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 uses	advcl
27	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lift	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	carry	present	washing powders	enzymes	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enzyme=Theme
2	break down	present	enzymes	food stains	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=Patient
3	use	present	hand gel	alcohol	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient
4	kill	to-infinitive	hand gel not said here	germs	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	not lift	present · do-support	gel	dirt	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=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:8.

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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