Materials and their properties, sentence 14

Whether an object floats depends on its material and its shape, not on its weight alone; things with air inside them, like an apple, are less dense and float more easily.

Who acts: object, floats, things · What happens: float, depend, be

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, floats, things), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 floats	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floats	nsubj
4	floats	float	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 depends	nsubj
5	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 material	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 material	nmod:poss
8	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depends	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shape	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shape	nmod:poss
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 material	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weight	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 weight	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 weight	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 weight	nmod:poss
16	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 material	conj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 weight	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 things	punct
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dense	nsubj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 air	case
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 things	nmod
22	inside	inside	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 air	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 apple	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 apple	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 apple	det
27	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 things	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 apple	punct
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dense	cop
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 dense	advmod
31	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 depends	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 float	cc
33	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dense	conj
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 easily	advmod
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	33 float	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 depends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	float		a object		tree rules
2	depend	present	floats	on object's material and object's shape and object's weight	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on material=Theme
3	is	present	things with air inside floats like a apple	dense, less property	tree rules
4	float	present	things with air inside floats like a apple not said here	easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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