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title: Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by di… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by distillation and other methods. Who acts: Ships, water. 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 13

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Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by distillation and other methods.

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**Who acts:** Ships, water · **What happens:** make, drink · **To what, where:** water, seawater

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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 (Ships, water), 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:13
# text = Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by distillation and other methods.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	distillation	distillation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | present | Ships and some dry countries | water |  |  |  | by distillation and other methods | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  | seawater |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from seawater=Source |

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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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2. **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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