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title: Filtering separates an undissolved solid from a liquid: the liquid p… — Mixtures and how to separate them · tree and pragmatics
description: Filtering separates an undissolved solid from a liquid: the liquid passes through the tiny holes in filter paper or cloth, and the solid stays on it. Who acts: Filtering, liquid, solid. A sentence of the lesson «Mixtures and how to separate them» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Mixtures and how to separate them, sentence 2

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Filtering separates an undissolved solid from a liquid: the liquid passes through the tiny holes in filter paper or cloth, and the solid stays on it.

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**Who acts:** Filtering, liquid, solid · **What happens:** separate, pass, stay · **To what, where:** undissolved solid, tiny holes, liquid

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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 (Filtering, liquid, solid), 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:2
# text = Filtering separates an undissolved solid from a liquid: the liquid passes through the tiny holes in filter paper or cloth, and the solid stays on it.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Filtering	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	separates	separate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	undissolved	undissolved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present | Filtering | a undissolved solid |  |  |  | from a liquid | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent solid=Patient from liquid=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | present | the liquid |  |  | the tiny holes in filter paper or cloth |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hole=Location |
| 3 | **stay** | present | the solid |  |  | liquid |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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