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title: In hard-water areas, minerals in the water react with soap to make g… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: In hard-water areas, minerals in the water react with soap to make grey scum, and kettles get white crusts of limescale. Who acts: minerals, kettles. 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 
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 14

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In hard-water areas, minerals in the water react with soap to make grey scum, and kettles get white crusts of limescale.

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**Who acts:** minerals, kettles · **What happens:** react, make, get · **To what, where:** water areas, grey scum, white crusts

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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 (minerals, kettles), 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:14
# text = In hard-water areas, minerals in the water react with soap to make grey scum, and kettles get white crusts of limescale.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scum	scum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	kettles	kettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crusts	crust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	limescale	limescale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | present | minerals in the water |  |  | water areas |  | with soap | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with soap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | minerals in the water *not said here* | grey scum |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scum=Product |
| 3 | **get** | present | kettles | white crusts of limescale |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Stimulus |

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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: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): 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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