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title: A filter separates an undissolved solid from a liquid. — Mixtures and how to separate them · tree and pragmatics
description: A filter separates an undissolved solid from a liquid. Who acts: filter. 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 8

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A filter separates an undissolved solid from a liquid.

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**Who acts:** filter · **What happens:** separate · **To what, where:** undissolved solid

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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 (filter), 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:8
# text = A filter separates an undissolved solid from a liquid.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	separates	separate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	undissolved	undissolved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | a filter | 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 |

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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:8`.

**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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