--- title: Soap also breaks apart many germs, which is why washing your hands p… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics description: Soap also breaks apart many germs, which is why washing your hands properly, for about 20 seconds, or two rounds of "Happy Birthday", helps stop illness. Who acts: Soap, many germs. 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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 (Soap, many germs), 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:3 # text = Soap also breaks apart many germs, which is why washing your hands properly, for about 20 seconds, or two rounds of "Happy Birthday", helps stop illness. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 apart apart ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 nsubj _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 properly properly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 rounds round NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Birthday birthday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 31 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break apart** | present | Soap | many germs | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | many germs | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wash** | gerund | | your hands | | | second | properly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | | illness | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality illness=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/2/) - next →: [Soap and why washing works, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/)