Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 12
When a ship sails from a river into the salty sea, it floats a little higher, because salty water pushes up harder.
Who acts: ship, salty water · What happens: sail, float, push up · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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 (ship, salty water), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sails | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sails | nsubj |
| 4 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 floats | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sails | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 10 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sails | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 floats | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 floats | nsubj |
| 14 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 floats | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 floats | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 pushes | mark |
| 20 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 water | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pushes | nsubj |
| 22 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 floats | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 pushes | compound:prt |
| 24 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 pushes | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | a ship | a river | into the salty sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from river=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | float | present | ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push up | present | salty water | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:12.
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.
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