--- title: A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics description: A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers. Who acts: salad spinner, hospitals. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/15/) [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/) / 15 # Separating mixtures, sentence 15 A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers. **Who acts:** salad spinner, hospitals · **What happens:** fling, spin, separate · **To what, where:** water, holes, blood, layers 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 (salad spinner, hospitals), 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:15 # text = A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spinner spinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flings fling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 outward outward ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 16 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 separate separate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fling** | present | a salad spinner | the water | | the holes | | outward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme through hole=Destination | | 2 | **spin** | present | hospitals | blood | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 3 | **separate** | to-infinitive | hospitals *not said here* | water | | | | into layers *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme into layer=Goal | 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. **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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Separating mixtures, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/13/) - next →: [Changes you can undo and changes you c…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/)