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title: Dishwasher detergent is made not to foam, so washing-up liquid must… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Dishwasher detergent is made not to foam, so washing-up liquid must never go in a dishwasher: the foam would overflow. Who acts: Dishwasher detergent, washing liquid, foam. A sentence of the lesson «Soap and why washing works» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 18

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Dishwasher detergent is made not to foam, so washing-up liquid must never go in a dishwasher: the foam would overflow.

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**Who acts:** Dishwasher detergent, washing liquid, foam · **What happens:** make, not foam, not go, overflow · **To what, where:** Dishwasher detergent, dishwasher

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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 (Dishwasher detergent, washing liquid, foam), 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:18
# text = Dishwasher detergent is made not to foam, so washing-up liquid must never go in a dishwasher: the foam would overflow.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	detergent	detergent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	foam	foam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Dishwasher detergent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **foam** | to-infinitive | Dishwasher detergent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **go** | must | washing liquid |  |  | a dishwasher |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dishwasher=Location |
| 4 | **overflow** | would | the foam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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