Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 14

An egg sinks in tap water but floats when lots of salt is stirred in, and a rotten egg floats even in fresh water because gas has built up inside.

Who acts: egg, rotten egg, gas · What happens: sink, float, stir in, build up · To what, where: tap water, lots, fresh 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 (egg, rotten egg, gas), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	nsubj
3	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 floats	cc
8	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sinks	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 stirred	advmod
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stirred	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 salt	case
12	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lots	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stirred	aux:pass
14	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 floats	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	14 stirred	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 floats	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 floats	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 egg	det
19	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 egg	amod
20	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floats	nsubj
21	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sinks	conj
22	even	even	ADV	_	25 water	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floats	obl
26	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	29 built	mark
27	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 built	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 built	aux
29	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 floats	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 built	compound:prt
31	inside	inside	ADV	_	29 built	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	present	a egg		tap water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	float	present	a egg not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stir in	present · passive		lots of salt			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	float	present	a rotten egg		fresh water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
5	build up	present · perfect	gas			inside property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:14.

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, R5-strong ×2, 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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