--- title: Soap breaks up the greasy layer on germs and lifts them off the skin… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Soap breaks up the greasy layer on germs and lifts them off the skin; washing for about 20 seconds, between fingers and under nails, removes most of them. Who acts: Soap, washing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soap, washing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:11 # text = Soap breaks up the greasy layer on germs and lifts them off the skin; washing for about 20 seconds, between fingers and under nails, removes most of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 greasy greasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 10 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 off off ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 between between ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 removes remove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break up** | present | Soap | the greasy layer | | germs | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | | 2 | **lift** | present | Soap *not said here* | germs *= germ* | | the skin | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme off skin=Destination | | 3 | **wash** | gerund | | | | | second | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remove** | present | washing | most of germs | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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