Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 15

You float best lying back with your lungs full of air, and breathing out makes you sink a little.

Who acts: You, breathing · What happens: float, lie back, breathe out, make, sink · To what, where: little

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 (You, breathing), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	_	2 float	advmod
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 float	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 lying	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lungs	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lungs	nmod:poss
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lungs	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 air	case
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 makes	cc
14	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 makes	csubj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 breathing	compound:prt
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 float	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sink	nsubj
18	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 makes	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sink	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 float	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	present	You		well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie back	gerund	You not said here		with your lungs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	breathe out	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	breathing			tree rules
5	sink	infinitive	you	a little		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:15.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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