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title: Today washing powders also carry enzymes that break down food stains… — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: Today washing powders also carry enzymes that break down food stains, and hand gel uses alcohol to kill germs, though it does not lift dirt. Who acts: washing powders, enzymes, hand gel, gel. A sentence of the lesson «Soap and why washing works» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Soap and why washing works, sentence 8

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Today washing powders also carry enzymes that break down food stains, and hand gel uses alcohol to kill germs, though it does not lift dirt.

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**Who acts:** washing powders, enzymes, hand gel, gel · **What happens:** carry, break down, use, kill, not lift · **To what, where:** enzymes, food stains, alcohol, germs, dirt

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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 (washing powders, enzymes, 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:8
# text = Today washing powders also carry enzymes that break down food stains, and hand gel uses alcohol to kill germs, though it does not lift dirt.
# 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	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	powders	powder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	enzymes	enzyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gel	gel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **carry** | present | washing powders | enzymes |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enzyme=Theme |
| 2 | **break down** | present | enzymes | food stains |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | present | hand gel | alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | hand gel *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **lift** | present · do-support | gel | dirt |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=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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**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.

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