--- title: Soap grabs grease and dirt where germs hide so water can rinse them… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics description: Soap grabs grease and dirt where germs hide so water can rinse them off, and it breaks the fatty coat of some viruses; in the 1840s Ignaz Semmelweis saved many mothers' lives by making doctors wash their hands. Who acts: Soap, germs, water, Ignaz. 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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, germs, water, Ignaz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:072-staying-healthy.lesson:4 # text = Soap grabs grease and dirt where germs hide so water can rinse them off, and it breaks the fatty coat of some viruses; in the 1840s Ignaz Semmelweis saved many mothers' lives by making doctors wash their hands. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 072-staying-healthy.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 grease grease NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 rinse rinse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 fatty fatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 29 Ignaz Ignaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 Semmelweis Semmelweis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 ' 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 36 by by SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ _ 38 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 . . 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 | **grab** | present | Soap | grease and dirt | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | present | germs | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rinse off** | can | water | germs *= germ* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | | 4 | **break** | present | soap | the fatty coat of some viruses | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Patient | | 5 | **save** | past | Ignaz | many mothers's lives | | the 1840s | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 6 | **make** | gerund | Ignaz *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wash** | infinitive | doctors | germs's hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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](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. 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