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title: Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressi… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing. Who acts: Mustard, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 7

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Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing.

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**Who acts:** Mustard, oil droplets · **What happens:** help, stay · **To what, where:** dressing

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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 (Mustard, 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:7
# text = Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing.
# 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	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yolk	yolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **help** | present | Mustard or egg yolk |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | oil droplets |  |  | a dressing |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dressing=Location |

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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.

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