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title: A smell is made of tiny particles of gas that spread out through the… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: A smell is made of tiny particles of gas that spread out through the air until some reach your nose. Who acts: tiny particles, some. A sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 12

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A smell is made of tiny particles of gas that spread out through the air until some reach your nose.

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**Who acts:** tiny particles, some · **What happens:** make, spread out, reach · **To what, where:** smell, air, nose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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 (tiny particles, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:12
# text = A smell is made of tiny particles of gas that spread out through the air until some reach your nose.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 011-solids-liquids-gases.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
18	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | a smell |  |  |  | of tiny particles of gas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **spread out** | present | tiny particles of gas |  |  | the air |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | present | some | your nose |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nose=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:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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