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title: Ordinary soap works well, and antibacterial soap has not been shown… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: Ordinary soap works well, and antibacterial soap has not been shown to be better for everyday use. Who acts: Ordinary soap. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 10

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Ordinary soap works well, and antibacterial soap has not been shown to be better for everyday use.

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**Who acts:** Ordinary soap · **What happens:** work, not show, be · **To what, where:** antibacterial soap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine 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 (Ordinary soap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:10
# text = Ordinary soap works well, and antibacterial soap has not been shown to be better for everyday use.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | present | Ordinary soap |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **show** | present · perfect · passive |  | antibacterial soap |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for everyday use; good *property* | tree rules |

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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:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:10`.

**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.

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