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title: Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells and colours spread out on their own. Who acts: Particles. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 9

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Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells and colours spread out on their own.

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**Who acts:** Particles · **What happens:** move, bump, spread out · **To what, where:** smells, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» 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 (Particles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:9
# text = Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells and colours spread out on their own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · progressive | Particles in air and water |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bump** | gerund | Particles in air and water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spread out** | participle · passive |  | smells and colours |  | particles's own |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on own=Destination |

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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.

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**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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