Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 3

Egg yolk can keep the droplets apart for good: its molecules have one end that likes water and one that likes oil, which is how thick, creamy mayonnaise is made.

Who acts: Egg yolk, molecules, one end, one, oil · What happens: keep, have, like, be, make · To what, where: droplets, one end, water, oil, creamy mayonnaise

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 (Egg yolk, molecules, one end, one), 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	Egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yolk	compound
2	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 droplets	det
6	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apart	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 molecules	nmod:poss
12	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 end	nummod
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 likes	nsubj
17	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 end	acl:relcl
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 likes	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 likes	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 likes	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 likes	nsubj
22	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 likes	conj
23	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 likes	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thick	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 thick	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 thick	cop
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 thick	advmod
28	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 oil	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thick	punct
30	creamy	creamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mayonnaise	amod
31	mayonnaise	mayonnaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 thick	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	can	Egg yolk	the droplets	apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme
2	have	present	yolk's molecules	one end		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
3	like	present	one end	water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
4	like	present	one	oil		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oil=Theme
5	is	present	oil		thick property	tree rules
6	make	present · passive		creamy mayonnaise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:3.

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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