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title: When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water p… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste. Who acts: something, particles, sugar. A sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Mixing and dissolving, sentence 5

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When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste.

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**Who acts:** something, particles, sugar · **What happens:** dissolve, spread out, be, have, taste · **To what, where:** water particles, taste

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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 (something, particles, sugar), 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:5
# text = When something dissolves, its particles spread out among the water particles; it is still there and still has its taste.
# 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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spread out** | past | sugar's particles |  |  | the water particles |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among particle=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | sugar |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | sugar *not said here* | sugar's taste |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
| 5 | **taste** |  | sugar |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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:5`.

**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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