Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 15

A steel paper clip placed gently rests on the water's skin; it is not floating like a boat, and pushed through the skin it sinks.

Who acts: paper clip, clip · What happens: place, rest, not float, push, sink · To what, where: paper clip, 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 (paper clip, clip), 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	4 clip	det
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paper	compound
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clip	compound
4	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rests	nsubj
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clip	acl
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 placed	advmod
7	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 skin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 water	case
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rests	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 floating	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 floating	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 floating	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 floating	advmod
17	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rests	parataxis
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 boat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boat	det
20	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 floating	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pushed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pushed	cc
23	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 floating	advcl
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 skin	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 skin	det
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pushed	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sinks	nsubj
28	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rests	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rests	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	participle		a paper clip not said here		gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
2	rest	present	a paper clip		the water's skin		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location
3	not float	present · progressive	clip			like a boat	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	participle	clip not said here		the skin		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through skin=Trajectory
5	sink	present	clip				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:15.

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 ×1, 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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