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title: In a solid the particles are packed tightly and only jiggle in place… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: In a solid the particles are packed tightly and only jiggle in place, so a solid keeps its own shape. Who acts: solid. 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 2

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In a solid the particles are packed tightly and only jiggle in place, so a solid keeps its own shape.

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**Who acts:** solid · **What happens:** pack, jiggle, keep · **To what, where:** particles, solid, place, own shape

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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 (solid), 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:2
# text = In a solid the particles are packed tightly and only jiggle in place, so a solid keeps its own shape.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	jiggle	jiggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pack** | present · passive |  | the particles |  | a solid |  | tightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in solid=Destination |
| 2 | **jiggle** | present |  |  |  | place |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a solid | solid's own shape |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:2`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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