Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 11
The same clay sinks as a ball but floats as a boat, because the boat shape moves aside more water.
Who acts: same clay, boat shape · What happens: sink, float, move · To what, where: more water
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 (same clay, boat shape), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clay | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clay | amod |
| 3 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sinks | nsubj |
| 4 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sinks | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 floats | cc |
| 9 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sinks | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floats | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moves | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 18 moves | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shape | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shape | compound |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moves | nsubj |
| 18 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sinks | advcl |
| 19 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 18 moves | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 water | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moves | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | the same clay | as a ball | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | present | the same clay not said here | as a boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | present | the boat shape | more water | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=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:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.lesson:11.
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, 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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