--- title: Alcohol hand gel kills many germs by damaging their outer coat, but… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics description: Alcohol hand gel kills many germs by damaging their outer coat, but it does not remove dirt, works poorly on dirty hands, is flammable and must not be swallowed. Who acts: hand gel, gel. 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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 (hand gel, gel), 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:19 # text = Alcohol hand gel kills many germs by damaging their outer coat, but it does not remove dirt, works poorly on dirty hands, is flammable and must not be swallowed. # 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): no change 1 Alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 gel gel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 damaging damaging VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 flammable flammable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | present | hand gel | many germs | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 2 | **damaging** | gerund | hand gel *not said here* | germs's outer coat | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **remove** | present · do-support | gel | dirt | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme | | 4 | **work** | present | gel *not said here* | | | | | on dirty hands; poorly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | flammable *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **swallow** | must · passive | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» | 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:19`. **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): no change. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/18/) - next →: [Cleaning chemicals and safety at home, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/25-cleaning-chemicals-safety/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/)