Materials and their properties, sentence 13
An object floats if it is less dense than water, and sinks if it is denser.
Who acts: object · What happens: float, be, sink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 (object), 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 | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | nsubj |
| 3 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 dense | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dense | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dense | cop |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 dense | advmod |
| 8 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 floats | advcl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dense | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sinks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sinks | cc |
| 13 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 floats | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 denser | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 denser | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 denser | cop |
| 17 | denser | dense | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sinks | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | float | present | a object | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | object | than water; dense, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sink | present | a object not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | object | dense property | tree rules |
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:world:018-materials-and-properties.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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