Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 11

Oil is lighter than water for its size and does not mix with it, so spilled oil spreads over the sea and coats birds' feathers.

Who acts: Oil, spilled oil · What happens: be, not mix, spill, spread, coat · To what, where: sea, feathers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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 (Oil, spilled oil), 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	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lighter	cop
3	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 size	nmod:poss
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mix	cc
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mix	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mix	advmod
12	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lighter	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mix	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spreads	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 spreads	advmod
17	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 oil	amod
18	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spreads	nsubj
19	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lighter	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spreads	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 coats	cc
24	coats	coat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spreads	conj
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 feathers	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 birds	case
27	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 coats	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lighter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Oil			than water; for oil's size; light property	tree rules
2	not mix	present · do-support	Oil not said here			with oil	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient
3	spill	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	present	spilled oil		the sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
5	coat	present	spilled oil not said here	birds's feathers			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feather=Destination

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:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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