Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 3

Some tiny things do not float at all but rest on the water's surface, which behaves like a thin stretchy skin: that is how a pond skater walks on water.

Who acts: tiny things, surface, that, pond skater · What happens: not float, behave, be, walk · To what, where: all, water

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 (tiny things, surface, that, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 things	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 float	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 float	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 float	advmod
6	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 float	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 rest	cc
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 float	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 surface	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 water	case
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 behaves	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 behaves	nsubj
18	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 surface	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 skin	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 skin	det
21	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
22	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 behaves	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 how	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 how	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 how	cop
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 behaves	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 skater	det
29	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skater	compound
30	skater	skater	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walks	nsubj
31	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 how	ccomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walks	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 float	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not float	present · do-support	some tiny things	all		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory
2	behave	present	the water's surface		like a thin stretchy skin	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like skin=Attribute
3	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
4	walk	present	a pond skater	water		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

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:3.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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