Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 2
Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again.
Who acts: you, oil, droplets · What happens: shake, break, join up · To what, where: bottle, tiny droplets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 (you, oil, droplets), 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 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dressing | case |
| 5 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressing | compound |
| 6 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 breaks | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oil | det |
| 9 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaks | nsubj |
| 10 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shake | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 droplets | case |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 droplets | amod |
| 13 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breaks | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaks | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 join | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 join | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 droplets | det |
| 20 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 join | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 join | advmod |
| 22 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shake | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 join | compound:prt |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 join | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shake | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | a bottle of salad dressing | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | present | the oil | while | into tiny droplets result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into droplet=Result | |||
| 3 | join up | present | the droplets | again | soon property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP 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:007-oil-and-water.lesson:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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