Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 6

Things float if they are lighter than the same size of water; wood is light for its size and stone is heavy for its size.

Who acts: Things, floats, wood, stone · What happens: float, be

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 (Things, floats, wood, stone), 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	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lighter	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lighter	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lighter	cop
6	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 float	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	_	16 light	punct
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 light	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 light	cop
16	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 float	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 size	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 size	nmod:poss
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 light	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heavy	cc
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heavy	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heavy	cop
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 size	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 size	nmod:poss
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heavy	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 float	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	float	present	Things		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	floats = float	than the same size of water; light property	tree rules
3	is	present	wood	for Water's size; light property	tree rules
4	is	present	stone	for Water's size; heavy 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:6.

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 ×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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