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title: Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast. Who acts: size, factory machines. 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 10

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Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast.

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**Who acts:** size, factory machines · **What happens:** sort, use · **To what, where:** Things, cameras, beans

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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 (size, factory machines), 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:10
# text = Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast.
# 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	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sort** | can · passive | size and shape or colour | Things |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | factory machines | cameras |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |
| 3 | **sort** | to-infinitive | factory machines *not said here* | beans or nuts |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=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.

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