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title: As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary wate… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water. Who acts: sugar, you, sugary water. 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 16

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As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water.

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**Who acts:** sugar, you, sugary water · **What happens:** dissolve, see, bend · **To what, where:** wavy streams, light

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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 (sugar, you, sugary water), 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:16
# text = As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	wavy	wavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **dissolve** | present | sugar |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | wavy streams |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bend** | present | the sugary water | light |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |

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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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-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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