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title: In a mixture each substance keeps its own properties. — Mixtures and how to separate them · tree and pragmatics
description: In a mixture each substance keeps its own properties. Who acts: substance. 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 6

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In a mixture each substance keeps its own properties.

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**Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** own properties, mixture

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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 (substance), 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:6
# text = In a mixture each substance keeps its own properties.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **keep** | present | each substance | mixture's own properties |  | a mixture |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent property=Theme in mixture=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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**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): no change. **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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