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title: Add soap and the grease slides away. — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Add soap and the grease slides away. Who acts: you, grease. A sentence of the lesson «Soap and why washing works» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 1

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Add soap and the grease slides away.

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**Who acts:** you, grease · **What happens:** add, slide away · **To what, where:** soap

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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 (you, grease), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:024-soap-and-why-washing-works.lesson:1
# text = Add soap and the grease slides away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 024-soap-and-why-washing-works.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | soap |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Patient |
| 2 | **slide away** | present | the grease |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:chemistry:024-soap-and-why-washing-works.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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