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title: Foam is just lots of bubbles; soap particles do the cleaning whether… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Foam is just lots of bubbles; soap particles do the cleaning whether there is foam or not. Who acts: Foam, soap particles. 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 17

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Foam is just lots of bubbles; soap particles do the cleaning whether there is foam or not.

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**Who acts:** Foam, soap particles · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** lots, cleaning

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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 (Foam, soap particles), 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:17
# text = Foam is just lots of bubbles; soap particles do the cleaning whether there is foam or not.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
8	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Foam | lots |  |  |  | of bubbles | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | soap particles | the cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality |
| 3 | **be** | present | foam |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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