Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 4

The same rule explains greasy fingers that water won't clean, ducks that stay dry, and the fat that sets on top of cold soup.

Who acts: same rule, water, ducks, fat · What happens: explain, not clean, stay, set · To what, where: greasy fingers, top

This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 (same rule, water, ducks, fat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rule	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explains	nsubj
4	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fingers	amod
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 explains	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 clean	obj
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clean	nsubj
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 clean	advmod
11	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fingers	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ducks	punct
13	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fingers	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stay	nsubj
15	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ducks	acl:relcl
16	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stay	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fat	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fat	det
20	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fingers	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sets	nsubj
22	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fat	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 top	case
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sets	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 soup	case
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 soup	amod
27	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 top	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explains	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the same rule	greasy fingers and ducks and the fat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic
2	not clean	future	water	greasy fingers and ducks and the fat			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	stay	present	ducks			dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set	present	the fat		top of cold soup		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on top=Destination

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:007-oil-and-water.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): 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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