--- title: Pigments are coloured powders that do not dissolve; they are mixed w… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics description: Pigments are coloured powders that do not dissolve; they are mixed with a sort of glue and sit on top, as paint does on a wall. Who acts: Pigments, coloured powders, paint. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Dyes, inks and colouring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/) / 3 # Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 3 Pigments are coloured powders that do not dissolve; they are mixed with a sort of glue and sit on top, as paint does on a wall. **Who acts:** Pigments, coloured powders, paint · **What happens:** be, not dissolve, mix, sit, do, sort · **To what, where:** coloured powders, Pigments, top, wall, glue 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 (Pigments, coloured powders, paint), 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:3 # text = Pigments are coloured powders that do not dissolve; they are mixed with a sort of glue and sit on top, as paint does on a wall. # 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 1 Pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 powders powder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 dissolve dissolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Pigments | coloured powders | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **dissolve** | present · do-support | coloured powders | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mix** | present · passive | | Pigments *= pigment* | | | | with a sort of glue | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with sort=Co-Patient | | 4 | **sit** | present | | | | top | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | | 5 | **do** | present | paint | | | a wall | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sort** | | | glue | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:3`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/2/) - next →: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/)