Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 2
You can feel it when you try to push a beach ball under the water and it pushes back up.
Who acts: You, push · What happens: feel, try, push · To what, where: push, beach ball, 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 (You, push), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 try | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 push | mark |
| 9 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ball | compound |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 push | obj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 push | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pushes | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pushes | nsubj |
| 18 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 up | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 pushes | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | You | push | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | push not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a beach ball | the water | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ball=Theme under water=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | push | present | push | 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:world:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:2.
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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