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title: The same rule explains greasy fingers that water won't clean, ducks… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: The same rule explains greasy fingers that water won't clean, ducks that stay dry, and the fat that sets on top of cold soup. Who acts: same rule, water, ducks, fat. 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 dependen
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 4

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The same rule explains greasy fingers that water won't clean, ducks that stay dry, and the fat that sets on top of cold soup.

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**Who acts:** same rule, water, ducks, fat · **What happens:** explain, not clean, stay, set · **To what, where:** greasy fingers, top

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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 (same rule, water, ducks, fat), 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:4
# text = The same rule explains greasy fingers that water won't clean, ducks that stay dry, and the fat that sets on top of cold soup.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the same rule | greasy fingers and ducks and the fat |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **clean** | future | water | greasy fingers and ducks and the fat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **stay** | present | ducks |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | present | the fat |  |  | top of cold soup |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |

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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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