--- title: Sprinkle pepper on water, touch it with a soapy finger, and the pepp… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics description: Sprinkle pepper on water, touch it with a soapy finger, and the pepper races to the edges, pulled by the stronger skin there. Who acts: you, pepper. 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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 (you, pepper), 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:5 # text = Sprinkle pepper on water, touch it with a soapy finger, and the pepper races to the edges, pulled by the stronger skin there. # 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 Sprinkle sprinkle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 soapy soapy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprinkle** | imperative | you *not said here* | pepper | | water | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme on water=Destination | | 2 | **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | pepper | | | | with a soapy finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument | | 3 | **race** | present | the pepper | | | the edges | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination | | 4 | **pull** | participle | | the edges *not said here* | | there | | by the stronger skin | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/4/) - next →: [Soap and why washing works, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/)