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title: Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime beha… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next. Who acts: things, 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 eve
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# Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 4

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Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next.

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**Who acts:** things, toothpaste · **What happens:** be, behave

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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 (things, 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:4
# text = Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	cornflour	cornflour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	behave	behave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | some things |  |  |  |  | tricky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behave** | present | toothpaste and ketchup and cornflour slime |  |  |  | moment |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:4`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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