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title: Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more sur… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too. Who acts: Small grains, grains. A sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Mixing and dissolving, sentence 11

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Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.

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**Who acts:** Small grains, grains · **What happens:** dissolve, have, touch, stir, help · **To what, where:** more surface

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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 (Small grains, grains), 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:11
# text = Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.
# 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): no change
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	nsubj	_	_
21	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **dissolve** | present | Small grains |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | grains *= grain* | more surface |  |  |  | for the water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient |
| 3 | **touch** | to-infinitive | grains *= grain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stir** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:006-mixing-and-dissolving.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): no change. **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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