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title: Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny drople… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again. Who acts: you, oil, droplets. 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
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 2

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Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again.

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**Who acts:** you, oil, droplets · **What happens:** shake, break, join up · **To what, where:** bottle, tiny droplets

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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, droplets), 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:2
# text = Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bottle of salad dressing |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present | the oil |  |  |  | while | into tiny droplets *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into droplet=Result |
| 3 | **join up** | present | the droplets |  |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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