Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 9
Archimedes is said to have noticed this in his bath and shouted "Eureka!", but the story may not be true.
Who acts: story · What happens: say, notice, shout, not be · To what, where: Archimedes, this, bath, Eureka · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story), 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 | Archimedes | Archimedes | PROPN | _ | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 noticed | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 noticed | aux |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 noticed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bath | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shouted | cc |
| 12 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Eureka | punct |
| 14 | Eureka | Eureka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shouted | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Eureka | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Eureka | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 true | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 true | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 true | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 true | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 true | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 true | cop |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Archimedes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive · perfect | this | Archimedes's bath | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | Eureka | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eureka=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is | may | the story | true 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:9.
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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