---
title: Toothpaste and ketchup are fine solid bits in a liquid; they sit sti… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: Toothpaste and ketchup are fine solid bits in a liquid; they sit still until pushed hard enough, then flow. Who acts: Toothpaste. A sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Solids, liquids and gases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/) / 11

# Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Toothpaste and ketchup are fine solid bits in a liquid; they sit still until pushed hard enough, then flow.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Toothpaste · **What happens:** be, sit, push, flow · **To what, where:** fine solid bits, liquid

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (Toothpaste), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:11
# text = Toothpaste and ketchup are fine solid bits in a liquid; they sit still until pushed hard enough, then flow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 004-solids-liquids-and-gases.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
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	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Toothpaste and ketchup | fine solid bits |  | a liquid |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | toothpaste |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | participle | toothpaste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flow** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Solids, liquids and gases, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/9/)
- next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/12/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/)