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title: Long ago people made soap by boiling fat with lye from wood ash, a v… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago people made soap by boiling fat with lye from wood ash, a very harsh alkali, so not a kitchen experiment. Who acts: people. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 7

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Long ago people made soap by boiling fat with lye from wood ash, a very harsh alkali, so not a kitchen experiment.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** soap

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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 (people), 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:7
# text = Long ago people made soap by boiling fat with lye from wood ash, a very harsh alkali, so not a kitchen experiment.
# 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 ×2
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lye	lye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	alkali	alkali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
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** | past | people | soap |  |  |  | by boiling fat and a kitchen experiment; ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Product |

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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 ×2. **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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