Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 10
A steel ship floats because it is hollow and full of air, so the water it moves aside weighs more than the ship; squashed into a lump, it would sink.
Who acts: steel ship, ship, Water · What happens: float, be, move, weigh, squash, sink · To what, where: water, more, lump
This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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 (steel ship, ship, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 hollow | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hollow | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hollow | cop |
| 8 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floats | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 full | cc |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hollow | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sink | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 weighs | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weighs | nsubj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 moves | nsubj |
| 18 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 water | acl:relcl |
| 19 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 18 moves | advmod |
| 20 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hollow | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 weighs | obj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 ship | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 more | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 squashed | punct |
| 26 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 sink | advcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 lump | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lump | det |
| 29 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 squashed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sink | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 sink | aux |
| 33 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hollow | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a steel ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | ship | hollow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | ship not said here | of air | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | move | present | Water | the water not said here | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme water=Result | |||
| 5 | weigh | present | the water | more | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | ||||
| 6 | squash | participle | Water not said here | a lump | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lump=Location | ||||
| 7 | sink | would | Water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.lesson:10.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.
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