Mixing and dissolving, sentence 10
Sand does not dissolve in water, because its particles are joined too strongly for water to pull them apart; nail varnish does not dissolve in water either, but it does dissolve in nail varnish remover.
Who acts: Sand, water, nail varnish · What happens: not dissolve, join, pull, dissolve · To what, where: water, particles, nail varnish remover
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 (Sand, water, nail varnish), 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 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dissolve | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dissolve | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dissolve | advmod |
| 4 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dissolve | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joined | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 joined | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 particles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 joined | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 joined | aux:pass |
| 12 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dissolve | advcl |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 strongly | advmod |
| 14 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 12 joined | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 pull | mark |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pull | mark |
| 18 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 joined | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pull | obj |
| 20 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 18 pull | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 dissolve | punct |
| 22 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 varnish | compound |
| 23 | varnish | varnish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dissolve | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dissolve | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 dissolve | advmod |
| 26 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dissolve | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dissolve | obl |
| 29 | either | either | ADV | _ | 26 dissolve | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dissolve | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 dissolve | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dissolve | nsubj |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 dissolve | aux |
| 34 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dissolve | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 remover | case |
| 36 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remover | compound |
| 37 | varnish | varnish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remover | compound |
| 38 | remover | remover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dissolve | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dissolve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dissolve | present · do-support | Sand | water | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | present · passive | water's particles | strongly property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | to-infinitive | water | particles = particle | apart property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | not dissolve | present · do-support | nail varnish | water | either property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | dissolve | present · do-support | water | nail varnish remover | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: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 ×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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