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title: Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubble… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball. Who acts: Soapy water, you, free bubble. 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 p
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 6

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Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.

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**Who acts:** Soapy water, you, free bubble · **What happens:** make, blow, pull · **To what, where:** stretchy film, bubbles, film, ball

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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 (Soapy water, you, free bubble), 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:6
# text = Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.
# 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	Soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Soapy water | a stretchy film |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset film=Product |
| 2 | **blow** | can | you | a stretchy film |  | bubbles |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into bubble=Product |
| 3 | **pull** | present | a free bubble | film |  | a ball |  | always *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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:6`.

**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/).

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