Mixing and dissolving, sentence 5
When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste.
Who acts: something, particles, sugar · What happens: dissolve, spread out, be, have, taste · To what, where: water particles, taste
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 (something, particles, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dissolves | advmod |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 dissolves | nsubj |
| 3 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 particles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 particles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 particles | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 particles | compound |
| 12 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 there | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 spread | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 has | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 has | advmod |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 taste | nmod:poss |
| 22 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | something | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | spread out | past | sugar's particles | the water particles | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among particle=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | sugar | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | sugar not said here | sugar's taste | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient | |||
| 5 | taste | sugar | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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