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title: Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big en… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta. Who acts: Draining, holes. 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 2

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Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta.

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**Who acts:** Draining, holes · **What happens:** drain, be · **To what, where:** pasta, separation

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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 (Draining, holes), 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:2
# text = Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Draining	drain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	colander	colander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **drain** | gerund |  | pasta |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pasta=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Draining | a separation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the holes of the colander |  |  |  |  | for water; big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the holes of the colander *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the pasta | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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