--- title: Some solids dissolve in water: sugar and salt break up into particle… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics description: Some solids dissolve in water: sugar and salt break up into particles too small to see and spread through the water, making a solution. Who acts: solids, sugar. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (solids, sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:5 # text = Some solids dissolve in water: sugar and salt break up into particles too small to see and spread through the water, making a solution. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 018-materials-and-properties.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 solids solid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dissolve dissolve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 solution solution NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dissolve** | present | some solids | | | water | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **break up** | present | sugar and salt | | | | | into particles *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into particle=Result | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | sugar and salt *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **spread** | infinitive | sugar and salt *not said here* | | | the water | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location | | 5 | **make** | gerund | sugar and salt *not said here* | a solution | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset solution=Product | 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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Materials and their properties, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/4/) - next →: [Materials and their properties, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/)