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title: Grease does not dissolve in water; soap links grease and water so it… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: Grease does not dissolve in water; soap links grease and water so it can be rinsed away, and warm water helps. Who acts: Grease, soap, warm water. A sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 11

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Grease does not dissolve in water; soap links grease and water so it can be rinsed away, and warm water helps.

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**Who acts:** Grease, soap, warm water · **What happens:** not dissolve, link, rinse away, help · **To what, where:** water, grease, soap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 (Grease, soap, warm water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:11
# text = Grease does not dissolve in water; soap links grease and water so it can be rinsed away, and warm water helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 007-oil-and-water.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	Grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **not** **dissolve** | present · do-support | Grease |  |  | water |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **link** | present | soap | grease and water |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Patient |
| 3 | **rinse away** | can · passive |  | soap |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | warm water |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:007-oil-and-water.lesson:11`.

**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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