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title: Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer,… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer, however long you wait. Who acts: you, oil. A sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 0

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Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer, however long you wait.

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**Who acts:** you, oil · **What happens:** pour, sit, wait · **To what, where:** oil, glass, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 (you, oil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:0
# text = Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer, however long you wait.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 007-oil-and-water.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	however	however	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | oil |  | a glass of water |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme into glass=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | present | oil |  |  | top |  | in oil's own layer | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | present | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:007-oil-and-water.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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