---
title: Each trick uses a difference between the things: size for a sieve or… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Each trick uses a difference between the things: size for a sieve or a colander, magnetism for a magnet, weight for settling, and boiling for salt water. Who acts: trick. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Separating mixtures](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/) / 1

# Separating mixtures, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each trick uses a difference between the things: size for a sieve or a colander, magnetism for a magnet, weight for settling, and boiling for salt water.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** trick · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** difference

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (trick), 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:1
# text = Each trick uses a difference between the things: size for a sieve or a colander, magnetism for a magnet, weight for settling, and boiling for salt water.
# 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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	colander	colander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	settling	settling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | each trick | a difference |  |  |  | between the things | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:1`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Separating mixtures, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/0/)
- next →: [Separating mixtures, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/)