Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 3

Shape matters too: a ball of clay sinks, but the same clay pressed into a little boat moves aside much more water and floats.

Who acts: Shape, ball, same clay · What happens: matter, sink, press, move, float · To what, where: same clay, little boat, more 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 (Shape, ball, same clay), 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	Shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 matters	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinks	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 clay	case
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	nmod
9	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 moves	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 pressed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clay	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clay	amod
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moves	nsubj
15	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 clay	acl
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 boat	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boat	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boat	amod
19	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pressed	obl
20	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sinks	conj
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 moves	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 water	amod
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moves	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 floats	cc
26	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 moves	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Shape				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	sink	present	a ball of clay				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	press	participle		the same clay not said here	a little boat		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into boat=Trajectory
4	move	present	the same clay	more water		aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	float	present	the same clay not said here				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:3.

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, 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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