--- title: A mixture is two or more substances mixed together without becoming… — Mixtures and how to separate them · tree and pragmatics description: A mixture is two or more substances mixed together without becoming a new substance; each keeps its own properties, so we can separate them again. Who acts: mixture, each, we. 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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 (mixture, each, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:019-mixtures-and-separating.lesson:0 # text = A mixture is two or more substances mixed together without becoming a new substance; each keeps its own properties, so we can separate them again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 019-mixtures-and-separating.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mixture mixture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 7 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 properties property NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 separate separate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a mixture | two substances | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | two substances *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | gerund | | a new substance | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient substance=Result | | 4 | **keep** | present | each | mixture's own properties | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme | | 5 | **separate** | can | we | properties *= property* | | | again | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:019-mixtures-and-separating.lesson:0`. **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 ×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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/18/) - next →: [Mixtures and how to separate them, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/19-mixtures-and-separating/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/19-mixtures-and-separating/)