Separating mixtures, sentence 15
A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers.
Who acts: salad spinner, hospitals · What happens: fling, spin, separate · To what, where: water, holes, blood, layers
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 (salad spinner, hospitals), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spinner | det |
| 2 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spinner | compound |
| 3 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flings | nsubj |
| 4 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flings | obj |
| 7 | outward | outward | ADV | _ | 4 flings | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaves | cc |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flings | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 holes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 holes | det |
| 14 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flings | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 flings | punct |
| 16 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spin | nsubj |
| 17 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flings | parataxis |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spin | obj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 17 spin | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 separate | mark |
| 21 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spin | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 separate | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 layers | case |
| 24 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 separate | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | present | a salad spinner | the water | the holes | outward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme through hole=Destination | ||
| 2 | spin | present | hospitals | blood | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||
| 3 | separate | to-infinitive | hospitals not said here | water | into layers goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme into layer=Goal |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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