Mixtures and how to separate them, sentence 0

A mixture is two or more substances mixed together without becoming a new substance; each keeps its own properties, so we can separate them again.

Who acts: mixture, each, we · What happens: be, mix, become, keep, separate · To what, where: two substances, new substance, own properties, properties

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixtures and how to separate them» of the world 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 (mixture, each, we), 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	2 mixture	det
2	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 substances	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 substances	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 substances	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 two	conj
7	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 substances	acl
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 mixed	advmod
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 becoming	mark
11	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 mixed	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 substance	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 substance	amod
14	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 becoming	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 keeps	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 keeps	nsubj
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 substances	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 properties	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 properties	amod
20	properties	property	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keeps	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 separate	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 separate	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 separate	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 separate	aux
25	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 keeps	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 separate	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 separate	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 substances	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a mixture	two substances			tree rules
2	mix	participle		two substances not said here		together property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	become	gerund		a new substance			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient substance=Result
4	keep	present	each	mixture's own properties			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme
5	separate	can	we	properties = property	again		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:world:019-mixtures-and-separating.lesson:0.

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): 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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