--- title: Dissolved things are harder: salt in water passes through any filter… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics description: Dissolved things are harder: salt in water passes through any filter, so you must let the water evaporate to leave the salt behind, or boil it off and catch the steam to get pure water. Who acts: Dissolved things, salt, you, water. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/3/) [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/) / 3 # Separating mixtures, sentence 3 Dissolved things are harder: salt in water passes through any filter, so you must let the water evaporate to leave the salt behind, or boil it off and catch the steam to get pure water. **Who acts:** Dissolved things, salt, you, water · **What happens:** dissolve, be, pass, let, evaporate, leave · **To what, where:** filter, water, salt, steam, pure water 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 (Dissolved things, salt, you, 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:3 # text = Dissolved things are harder: salt in water passes through any filter, so you must let the water evaporate to leave the salt behind, or boil it off and catch the steam to get pure water. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 filter filter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 evaporate evaporate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 behind behind ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dissolve** | participle | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Dissolved things | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | present | salt in water | | | any filter | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through filter=Location | | 4 | **let** | must | you | the water | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **evaporate** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the water *not said here* | the salt | | | | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme | | 7 | **boil off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | water | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **catch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the steam | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steam=Theme | | 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | pure water | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Separating mixtures, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/2/) - next →: [Separating mixtures, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/)