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title: The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it like corks; salty w… — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it like corks; salty water holds you up more than fresh water. Who acts: Dead Sea, people, salty 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
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# Mixing and dissolving, sentence 9

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The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it like corks; salty water holds you up more than fresh water.

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**Who acts:** Dead Sea, people, salty water · **What happens:** be, float, hold up · **To what, where:** Sea, you

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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 (Dead Sea, people, salty 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:9
# text = The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it like corks; salty water holds you up more than fresh 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	corks	cork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | the Dead Sea |  |  |  |  | salty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | present | people |  |  | Sea |  | like corks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hold up** | present | salty water | you |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=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:9`.

**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. **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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