--- title: Washing powder contains detergents and enzymes that break down prote… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics description: Washing powder contains detergents and enzymes that break down protein and fat stains, so many modern powders work well at 30 °C and save energy. Who acts: Washing powder, detergents, many modern powders. 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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 (Washing powder, detergents, many modern powders), 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:16 # text = Washing powder contains detergents and enzymes that break down protein and fat stains, so many modern powders work well at 30 °C and save energy. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 detergents detergent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 enzymes enzyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stains stain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 powders powder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 23 ° ° SYM SYM _ 24 compound _ _ 24 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 26 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **contain** | present | Washing powder | detergents and enzymes | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot detergent=Theme | | 2 | **break down** | present | detergents and enzymes | protein and fat stains | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient | | 3 | **work** | present | many modern powders | | | | | at 30 and ° C; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 30=Theme | | 4 | **save** | present | many modern powders *not said here* | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:chemistry:024-soap-and-why-washing-works.lesson:16`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/15/) - next →: [Soap and why washing works, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/)