Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 2

Something floats if it is lighter than the same size of water: wood floats, a stone sinks, and a hollow steel ship floats because it is mostly air inside.

Who acts: Something, Water, hollow steel ship · What happens: float, be, sink · To what, where: air

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 (Something, Water, hollow steel ship), 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lighter	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lighter	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lighter	cop
6	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 floats	advcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 size	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lighter	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 floats	punct
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floats	compound
15	floats	float	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 floats	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sinks	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sinks	compound
19	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 floats	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 floats	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 floats	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ship	det
23	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ship	amod
24	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ship	compound
25	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 floats	nsubj
26	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sinks	conj
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 air	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 air	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 air	cop
30	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	31 air	advmod
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 floats	advcl
32	inside	inside	ADV	_	31 air	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 floats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	present	Something			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Water		than the same size of water; light property	tree rules
3	sink	present	Something not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	float	present	a hollow steel ship			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	Water	air	inside, mostly property	tree rules

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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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