Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 14
Soap breaks apart the oily layer that sticks germs to the skin, so water can wash them away.
Who acts: Soap, oily layer, water · What happens: break apart, stick, wash away · To what, where: oily layer, germs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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 (Soap, oily layer, water), 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 | Soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 breaks | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 layer | det |
| 5 | oily | oily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layer | amod |
| 6 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sticks | nsubj |
| 8 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 layer | acl:relcl |
| 9 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sticks | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticks | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wash | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 wash | advmod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wash | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wash | aux |
| 17 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sticks | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wash | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 wash | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | 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 | break apart | present | Soap | the oily layer | apart property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | |||
| 2 | stick | present | the oily layer | germs | to the skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient to skin=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | wash away | can | water | Germs = germ | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:14.
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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