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title: Making a mixture is a change that can be reversed; burning is not. — Mixtures and how to separate them · tree and pragmatics
description: Making a mixture is a change that can be reversed; burning is not. Who acts: Making, change. A sentence of the lesson «Mixtures and how to separate them» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mixtures and how to separate them, sentence 15

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Making a mixture is a change that can be reversed; burning is not.

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**Who acts:** Making, change · **What happens:** make, be, reverse, burn · **To what, where:** mixture, change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixtures and how to separate them» 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 (Making, change), 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:15
# text = Making a mixture is a change that can be reversed; burning is not.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	reversed	reverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | gerund |  | a mixture |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mixture=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Making | a change |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reverse** | can · passive |  | a change |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **burn** | present · progressive | a change *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:019-mixtures-and-separating.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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