Separating mixtures, sentence 12
Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.
Who acts: Distillation, drops, salt · What happens: boil, cool back, be, stay · To what, where: liquid, steam, pure water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» 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 (Distillation, drops, salt), 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 | Distillation | distillation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boiling | aux |
| 3 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 liquid | det |
| 5 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiling | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cooling | cc |
| 7 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 boiling | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steam | det |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooling | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 cooling | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 liquid | case |
| 12 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooling | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 boiling | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drops | det |
| 15 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 water | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 water | cop |
| 17 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiling | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stays | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stays | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 salt | det |
| 22 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stays | nsubj |
| 23 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boiling | conj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 23 stays | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present · progressive | Distillation | a liquid | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent liquid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cool back | gerund | Distillation not said here | the steam | to liquid | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent steam=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the drops | pure water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay | present | the salt | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:008-separating-mixtures.lesson:12.
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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