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title: Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet ki… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet kitchen paper. 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 4

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Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet kitchen paper.

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**What happens:** pull apart · **To what, where:** colours, wet kitchen paper

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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: 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:4
# text = Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet kitchen paper.
# 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	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **pull apart** | can · passive |  | the colours in black tip ink |  | wet kitchen paper |  | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:4`.

**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.

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