Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 16

Sealed plastic bottles are full of air, so a raft of many bottles can hold up a child, but people on such rafts should still wear life jackets.

Who acts: Sealed plastic bottles, raft, people · What happens: seal, be, hold up, wear · To what, where: child, life jackets

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 (Sealed plastic bottles, raft, people), 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	Sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bottles	amod
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bottles	amod
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 hold	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 raft	det
11	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bottles	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bottles	amod
14	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raft	nmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 full	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 hold	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wear	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 wear	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wear	nsubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 rafts	case
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rafts	amod
25	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 people	nmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wear	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 wear	advmod
28	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hold	conj
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jackets	compound
30	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wear	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	Sealed plastic bottles			of air; full property	tree rules
3	hold up	can	a raft of many bottles	a child			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
4	wear	should	people on such rafts	life jackets	still		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme

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:16.

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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