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title: A mixture is things mixed together but not joined, so you can get th… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: A mixture is things mixed together but not joined, so you can get them apart again if you pick the right trick. Who acts: mixture, you. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Separating mixtures, sentence 0

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A mixture is things mixed together but not joined, so you can get them apart again if you pick the right trick.

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**Who acts:** mixture, you · **What happens:** be, mix, not join, get, pick · **To what, where:** things, right trick

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» 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 (mixture, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:008-separating-mixtures.lesson:0
# text = A mixture is things mixed together but not joined, so you can get them apart again if you pick the right trick.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 008-separating-mixtures.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | a mixture | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | can | you | things *= thing* |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pick** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the right trick |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:008-separating-mixtures.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): 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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