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title: Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liqui… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind. Who acts: Distillation, drops, salt. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Separating mixtures, sentence 12

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Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.

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**Who acts:** Distillation, drops, salt · **What happens:** boil, cool back, be, stay · **To what, where:** liquid, steam, pure water

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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 (Distillation, drops, salt), 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:12
# text = Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.
# 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	Distillation	distillation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **boil** | present · progressive | Distillation | a liquid |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent liquid=Patient |
| 2 | **cool back** | gerund | Distillation *not said here* | the steam |  |  |  | to liquid | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent steam=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the drops | pure water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | present | the salt |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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