Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 5
If ice sank, ponds would freeze from the bottom up and fish could not survive the winter.
Who acts: ice, ponds, fish · What happens: sink, freeze, not survive · To what, where: bottom
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 (ice, ponds, fish), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 sank | mark |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 freeze | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 freeze | punct |
| 5 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 freeze | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 freeze | aux |
| 7 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 bottom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottom | det |
| 10 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freeze | obl |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 freeze | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 survive | cc |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 survive | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 survive | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 survive | advmod |
| 16 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 freeze | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 winter | det |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 survive | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 freeze | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink a condition, not said to happen | past | ice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | freeze | would | ponds | the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not survive | could | fish | winter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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