Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 20

Many fish have a swim bladder, a bag of gas that helps them float at the depth they want.

Who acts: Many fish, gas, fish · What happens: have, help, float, want · To what, where: swim bladder, fish, depth

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 (Many fish, gas, fish), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bladder	det
5	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bladder	compound
6	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bag	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bladder	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gas	case
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bag	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 helps	nsubj
13	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gas	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helps	obj
15	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 helps	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 depth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 depth	det
18	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 float	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 depth	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Many fish	a swim bladder		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient
2	help	present	gas	fish		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	float	infinitive	fish not said here		the depth	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at depth=Trajectory
4	want	present	fish	the depth not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot depth=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:20.

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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