Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 16
Water is denser than oil, so it sinks under burning oil.
Who acts: Water · What happens: be, sink, burn · To what, where: burning oil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday 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 (Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denser | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 denser | cop |
| 3 | denser | dense | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 oil | case |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denser | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sinks | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 sinks | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sinks | nsubj |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 denser | parataxis |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 oil | case |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 oil | amod |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinks | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 denser | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Water | than oil; dense property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | Water | burning oil | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-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.
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