Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 16
Muscle sinks more than fat, so very sporty people may float less well.
Who acts: Muscle, sporty people · What happens: sink, float
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 (Muscle, sporty 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 | Muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sinks | nsubj |
| 2 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 sinks | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 fat | case |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sinks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 float | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 float | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 sporty | advmod |
| 9 | sporty | sporty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 float | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 float | aux |
| 12 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sinks | parataxis |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 float | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | Muscle | than fat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | may | sporty people | well property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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 ×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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