--- title: Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder can be separated with a magnet… — Molecules: when atoms join up · tree and pragmatics description: Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder can be separated with a magnet; after a teacher heats them, they form iron sulphide, which the magnet no longer picks out. Who acts: teacher, filings, magnet. A sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/3-molecules-when-atoms-join-up/12/) [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/) / [Molecules: when atoms join up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/3-molecules-when-atoms-join-up/) / 12 # Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 12 Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder can be separated with a magnet; after a teacher heats them, they form iron sulphide, which the magnet no longer picks out. **Who acts:** teacher, filings, magnet · **What happens:** mix, separate, heat, form, pick out · **To what, where:** Mixed iron filings, filings, iron sulphide This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» 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 (teacher, filings, magnet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:12 # text = Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder can be separated with a magnet; after a teacher heats them, they form iron sulphide, which the magnet no longer picks out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 filings filing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 sulphur sulphur NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 sulphide sulphide NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 no no ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **separate** | can · passive | | Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder | | | | with a magnet | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **heat** | present | a teacher | filings *= filing* | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **form** | present | filings *= filing* | iron sulphide | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sulphide=Theme | | 5 | **pick out** | present | the magnet | iron sulphide | | | | long *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Molecules: when atoms join up, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/3-molecules-when-atoms-join-up/11/) - next →: [Molecules: when atoms join up, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/3-molecules-when-atoms-join-up/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/3-molecules-when-atoms-join-up/)