Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 16
A hollow shape pushes aside more water than a solid lump of the same material.
Who acts: hollow shape · What happens: push · To what, where: more water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» 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 (hollow shape), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shape | det |
| 2 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shape | amod |
| 3 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushes | nsubj |
| 4 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 7 water | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushes | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 lump | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lump | det |
| 10 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lump | amod |
| 11 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 material | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 material | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 material | amod |
| 15 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lump | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushes | 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 | push | present | a hollow shape | more water | than a solid lump of the same material | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:16.
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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