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title: The particles of a gas are much farther apart than those of a solid… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: The particles of a gas are much farther apart than those of a solid or a liquid. Who acts: particles. 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 14

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The particles of a gas are much farther apart than those of a solid or a liquid.

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**Who acts:** particles · **What happens:** be

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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 (particles), 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:14
# text = The particles of a gas are much farther apart than those of a solid or a liquid.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **is** | present | the particles of a gas |  |  |  |  | apart, far *property* | 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:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:14`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×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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