--- title: A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miner… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics description: A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel. Who acts: sieve, gold miners. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/6/) [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/) / 6 # Separating mixtures, sentence 6 A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel. **Who acts:** sieve, gold miners · **What happens:** let, keep, use, wash · **To what, where:** fine flour, lumps, pans, gold, river gravel 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 (sieve, gold miners), 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:6 # text = A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 miners miner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 pans pan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sieves sieve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 gravel gravel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | a sieve | fine flour | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present | a sieve *not said here* | lumps | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme | | 3 | **use** | past | gold miners | pans and sieves | | | | ago *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Patient | | 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive | gold miners *not said here* | gold | | river gravel | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from gravel=Source | 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:6`. **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, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/5/) - next →: [Separating mixtures, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/)