Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 13
The surface of water acts like a thin stretchy skin, because water molecules hold tightly together at the top.
Who acts: surface, water molecules · What happens: act, hold · To what, where: top
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 (surface, water molecules), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 surface | det |
| 2 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acts | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surface | nmod |
| 5 | acts | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skin | amod |
| 9 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skin | amod |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acts | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hold | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 molecules | compound |
| 14 | molecules | molecule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 acts | advcl |
| 16 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 15 hold | advmod |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 hold | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 acts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | the surface of water | like a thin stretchy skin | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like skin=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | water molecules | the top | tightly, together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
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:13.
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): no change. 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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