Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 13

Salty water is heavier than fresh water, so it pushes up harder, and in the very salty Dead Sea people float sitting up.

Who acts: Salty water, Water, people · What happens: be, push up, float, sit up

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 (Salty water, Water, people), 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	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pushes	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 pushes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pushes	nsubj
11	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 pushes	compound:prt
13	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 pushes	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 float	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 float	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	21 Sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sea	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 salty	advmod
19	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Sea	amod
20	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Sea	compound
21	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 people	nmod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 float	nsubj
23	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	conj
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 float	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 sitting	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Salty water	than fresh water; heavy property	tree rules
2	push up	present	Water	hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	float	present	people in the salty Dead Sea		tree rules
4	sit up	gerund	people in the salty Dead Sea not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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