Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 13
An ice cube floating in a glass filled to the brim does not make it overflow as it melts: the melted water just fills the space the ice was taking up under the surface.
Who acts: ice cube, brim, cube, melted water, ice · What happens: float, fill, not make, not overflow, melt, take up · To what, where: glass, brim, space, surface
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 (ice cube, brim, cube, melted 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cube | det |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cube | compound |
| 3 | cube | cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 4 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cube | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floating | obl |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 glass | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brim | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brim | det |
| 11 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | overflow | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 melts | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 melts | nsubj |
| 19 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 fills | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 22 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fills | nsubj |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 fills | advmod |
| 25 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 melts | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 space | det |
| 27 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fills | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ice | det |
| 29 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taking | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 taking | aux |
| 31 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 space | acl:relcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 taking | compound:prt |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 surface | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 surface | det |
| 35 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taking | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | 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 | float | gerund | a ice cube not said here | a glass | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glass=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | a glass not said here | to the brim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | a ice cube | brim | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not overflow | infinitive | brim not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | melt | present | cube | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | fill | present | the melted water | the space | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient | ||||
| 8 | take up | past · progressive | the ice | the space not said here | the surface | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:13.
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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