--- title: Sand does not dissolve in water, because its particles are joined to… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics description: Sand does not dissolve in water, because its particles are joined too strongly for water to pull them apart; nail varnish does not dissolve in water either, but it does dissolve in nail varnish remover. Who acts: Sand, water, nail varnish. A sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» of the chem --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/10/) [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/) / [Mixing and dissolving](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/) / 10 # Mixing and dissolving, sentence 10 Sand does not dissolve in water, because its particles are joined too strongly for water to pull them apart; nail varnish does not dissolve in water either, but it does dissolve in nail varnish remover. **Who acts:** Sand, water, nail varnish · **What happens:** not dissolve, join, pull, dissolve · **To what, where:** water, particles, nail varnish remover This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» 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 (Sand, water, nail varnish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:10 # text = Sand does not dissolve in water, because its particles are joined too strongly for water to pull them apart; nail varnish does not dissolve in water either, but it does dissolve in nail varnish remover. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 006-mixing-and-dissolving.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 dissolve dissolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 apart apart ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 varnish varnish NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 dissolve dissolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 either either ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 dissolve dissolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 varnish varnish NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 remover remover NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **dissolve** | present · do-support | Sand | | | water | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **join** | present · passive | | water's particles | | | | strongly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **pull** | to-infinitive | water | particles *= particle* | | | | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **not** **dissolve** | present · do-support | nail varnish | | | water | | either *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **dissolve** | present · do-support | water | | | nail varnish remover | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, 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: [Mixing and dissolving, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/9/) - next →: [Mixing and dissolving, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/)