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title: Detergent pods hold strong soap in a film that dissolves in water; t… — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics
description: Detergent pods hold strong soap in a film that dissolves in water; they look like sweets but are poisonous, so they are kept locked away from little children. Who acts: Detergent pods, film, pods. A sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology course of Mova's pr
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# Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing, sentence 14

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Detergent pods hold strong soap in a film that dissolves in water; they look like sweets but are poisonous, so they are kept locked away from little children.

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**Who acts:** Detergent pods, film, pods · **What happens:** hold, dissolve, look, be, keep, lock away · **To what, where:** strong soap, film, water, pods

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology 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 (Detergent pods, film, pods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:14
# text = Detergent pods hold strong soap in a film that dissolves in water; they look like sweets but are poisonous, so they are kept locked away from little children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.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	Detergent	detergent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hold** | present | Detergent pods | strong soap |  | a film |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soap=Theme in film=Location |
| 2 | **dissolve** | present | a film |  |  | water |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | present | pods *= pod* |  |  |  |  | like sweets | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | pods *= pod* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | present · passive |  | pods *= pod* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lock away** | participle | pods *= pod* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:technology:012-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing.lesson:14`.

**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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