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title: A red sock can leak loose dye into the wash water, and the dye then… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: A red sock can leak loose dye into the wash water, and the dye then sticks to other clothes; colour-catcher sheets soak up loose dye. Who acts: red sock, dye, catcher sheets. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 20

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A red sock can leak loose dye into the wash water, and the dye then sticks to other clothes; colour-catcher sheets soak up loose dye.

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**Who acts:** red sock, dye, catcher sheets · **What happens:** leak, stick, soak up · **To what, where:** loose dye, wash water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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 (red sock, dye, catcher sheets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:20
# text = A red sock can leak loose dye into the wash water, and the dye then sticks to other clothes; colour-catcher sheets soak up loose dye.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	leak	leak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
24	catcher	catcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	soak	soak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **leak** | can | a red sock | loose dye |  | the wash water |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dye=Source |
| 2 | **stick** | present | the dye |  |  |  | then | to other clothes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to clothes=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **soak up** | present | catcher sheets | loose dye |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dye=Source |

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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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