Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 6

Shaking breaks oil into small droplets, but they join up again unless something holds them apart.

Who acts: droplets, something · What happens: shake, break, join up, hold · To what, where: oil, small droplets, 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 (droplets, something), 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	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 droplets	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 droplets	amod
6	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 join	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 join	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 join	nsubj
10	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breaks	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 join	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 join	advmod
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 holds	mark
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 holds	nsubj
15	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 join	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 holds	obj
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 holds	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	break	present		oil		into small droplets result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent oil=Patient into droplet=Result
3	join up	present	droplets = droplet		again		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	something	droplets = droplet		apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:6.

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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