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title: Felt-tip pens hold dyes dissolved in a liquid; the liquid soaks into… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: Felt-tip pens hold dyes dissolved in a liquid; the liquid soaks into the paper and dries, leaving the dye; black felt-tips often contain several colours mixed. Who acts: tip pens, liquid, black felt tips. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary s
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 10

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Felt-tip pens hold dyes dissolved in a liquid; the liquid soaks into the paper and dries, leaving the dye; black felt-tips often contain several colours mixed.

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**Who acts:** tip pens, liquid, black felt tips · **What happens:** hold, dissolve, soak, dry, leave, contain · **To what, where:** dyes, liquid, paper, dye, several colours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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 (tip pens, liquid, black felt tips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:10
# text = Felt-tip pens hold dyes dissolved in a liquid; the liquid soaks into the paper and dries, leaving the dye; black felt-tips often contain several colours mixed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | tip pens | dyes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Theme |
| 2 | **dissolve** | participle |  | dyes *not said here* |  | a liquid |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **soak** | present | the liquid |  |  | the paper |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dry** | present | the liquid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | the liquid *not said here* | the dye |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Theme |
| 6 | **contain** | present | black felt tips | several colours |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme |
| 7 | **mix** | participle |  | several colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×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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