--- title: Soap weakens the surface tension of water; the stronger "skin" at th… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics description: Soap weakens the surface tension of water; the stronger "skin" at the edges pulls pepper away from a soapy finger, and a paper boat with soap at the back zooms forward for the same reason. Who acts: Soap, stronger skin, paper boat, water. 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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, stronger skin, paper boat, water), 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:11 # text = Soap weakens the surface tension of water; the stronger "skin" at the edges pulls pepper away from a soapy finger, and a paper boat with soap at the back zooms forward for the same reason. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 weakens weaken VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 10 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 17 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 soapy soapy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 zooms zoom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 35 forward forward ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **weaken** | present | Soap | the surface tension of water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tension=Patient | | 2 | **pull away** | present | the stronger skin at the edges | pepper | | a soapy finger | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **zoom** | present | a paper boat with soap | | | | | for the same reason; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tense** | | water | | | | | | nom tension «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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:chemistry:024-soap-and-why-washing-works.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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Soap and why washing works, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/9/) - next →: [Soap and why washing works, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/)