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title: Squash is a solution: more water makes it more dilute, and a sieve o… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: Squash is a solution: more water makes it more dilute, and a sieve or filter cannot take the cordial back out. Who acts: Squash, more water, sieve. 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 c
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# Mixing and dissolving, sentence 12

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Squash is a solution: more water makes it more dilute, and a sieve or filter cannot take the cordial back out.

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**Who acts:** Squash, more water, sieve · **What happens:** be, make, not take · **To what, where:** solution, Squash, cordial

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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 (Squash, more water, sieve), 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:12
# text = Squash is a solution: more water makes it more dilute, and a sieve or filter cannot take the cordial back out.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	solution	solution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	dilute	dilute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cordial	cordial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Squash | a solution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | more water | Squash |  |  |  | dilute *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **not** **take** | can | a sieve or filter | the cordial |  |  |  | out *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cordial=Theme |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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