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title: Shaking breaks oil into small droplets, but they join up again unles… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: Shaking breaks oil into small droplets, but they join up again unless something holds them apart. Who acts: droplets, something. 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 c
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 6

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Shaking breaks oil into small droplets, but they join up again unless something holds them apart.

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**Who acts:** droplets, something · **What happens:** shake, break, join up, hold · **To what, where:** oil, small droplets, 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 (droplets, something), 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:6
# text = Shaking breaks oil into small droplets, but they join up again unless something holds them apart.
# 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): no change
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present |  | oil |  |  |  | into small droplets *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent oil=Patient into droplet=Result |
| 3 | **join up** | present | droplets *= droplet* |  |  |  | again |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | droplets *= droplet* |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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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