Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 14

A pond skater's light, waxy feet do not break the water's skin, and a drop of washing-up liquid weakens the skin so a resting paper clip sinks at once.

Who acts: waxy feet, drop, resting paper clip, pond skater · What happens: not break, weaken, rest, sink, light · To what, where: skin

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 (waxy feet, drop, resting paper clip, pond skater), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 skater	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skater	compound
3	skater	skater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 skater	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feet	punct
7	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 break	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 break	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 break	advmod
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 skin	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 water	case
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 break	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weakens	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 weakens	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drop	det
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 weakens	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 liquid	case
21	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 liquid	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 washing	punct
23	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 washing	compound
24	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nmod
25	weakens	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 break	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skin	det
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 weakens	obj
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 sinks	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 clip	det
30	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 clip	amod
31	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clip	compound
32	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sinks	nsubj
33	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 weakens	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 sinks	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 break	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not break	present · do-support	waxy feet	the water's skin	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Patient
2	weaken	present	a drop of washing liquid	the skin	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	rest	gerund			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sink	present	a resting paper clip		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	light		a pond skater		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:14.

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 ×4, R6-punct-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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