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title: Soap loosens dirt and germs so that water can rinse them away; water… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Soap loosens dirt and germs so that water can rinse them away; water alone washes off much less. Who acts: Soap, water. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 20

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Soap loosens dirt and germs so that water can rinse them away; water alone washes off much less.

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**Who acts:** Soap, water · **What happens:** loosen, rinse away, wash off · **To what, where:** dirt, soap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday 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 (Soap, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:20
# text = Soap loosens dirt and germs so that water can rinse them away; water alone washes off much less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 029-germs-from-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loosens	loosen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **loosen** | present | Soap | dirt and germs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient |
| 2 | **rinse away** | can | that water | soap |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 3 | **wash off** | present | water |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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