Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 4
Salty water pushes up harder than fresh water, which is why you float more easily in the sea.
Who acts: Salty water, you · What happens: push up, be, float · To what, where: sea
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 (Salty water, you), 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 | Salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pushes | compound:prt |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 pushes | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harder | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 why | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | cop |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pushes | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 float | nsubj |
| 14 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 easily | advmod |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 float | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 float | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push up | present | Salty water | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | float | present | you | the sea | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
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:4.
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 ×3. 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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