Water safety and the ocean, sentence 2

Water also holds up most of your weight, so a friend feels light in the pool, and a boat stays steady only while its weight is kept low.

Who acts: Water, friend, boat · What happens: hold up, feel, stay, keep · To what, where: most, weight

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» 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 (Water, friend, boat), 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 holds	advmod
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 holds	compound:prt
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 holds	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 weight	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 weight	nmod:poss
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feels	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 feels	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feels	nsubj
13	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
14	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feels	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feels	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stays	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stays	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boat	det
21	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stays	nsubj
22	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feels	conj
23	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stays	xcomp
24	only	only	ADV	_	29 kept	advmod
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 kept	mark
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 weight	nmod:poss
27	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	aux:pass
29	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stays	advcl
30	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kept	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	Water	most of your weight		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme
2	feel	present	a friend		in the pool; light property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pool=Attribute
3	stay	present	a boat		steady property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	present · passive		water's weight	low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:2.

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 ×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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