Mixtures and how to separate them, sentence 13
Heavy solid bits settle to the bottom of still water, so clearer water can be poured off the top.
Who acts: Heavy solid bits · What happens: settle, pour · To what, where: clearer water, top
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 (Heavy solid bits), 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 | Heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bits | amod |
| 2 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bits | amod |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 settle | nsubj |
| 4 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settle | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 water | advmod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poured | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 poured | advmod |
| 13 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 poured | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 poured | aux:pass |
| 17 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 settle | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poured | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | present | Heavy solid bits | to the bottom of water | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pour | can · passive | clearer water | the top | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme off top=Initial_Location |
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:13.
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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