Mixing and dissolving, sentence 1

Water molecules crowd round each tiny sugar molecule and carry it off into the liquid, so the sugar is still there, only spread out too small to see.

Who acts: Water molecules, sugar · What happens: crowd, carry off, be, spread out, see · To what, where: tiny sugar molecule, it, liquid

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» 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 (Water molecules, sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 molecules	compound
2	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nsubj
3	crowd	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	8 molecule	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 molecule	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 molecule	amod
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 molecule	compound
8	molecule	molecule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crowd	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carry	cc
10	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crowd	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 carry	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 liquid	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 liquid	det
15	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	22 there	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sugar	det
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 there	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 spread	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 spread	advmod
25	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crowd	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 spread	compound:prt
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 small	advmod
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 spread	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 spread	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crowd	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crowd	present	Water molecules		each tiny sugar molecule			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round molecule=Destination
2	carry off	present	Water molecules not said here	it	the liquid			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	the sugar			still	there property	tree rules
4	spread out	participle	Water molecules not said here				small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Water molecules not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Licence: CC 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:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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