Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 21
Ice floats because water expands when it freezes, so ice is lighter than the same amount of water.
Who acts: Ice, water · What happens: float, expand, freeze, be, amount · To what, where: 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 (Ice, water), 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 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 expands | mark |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expands | nsubj |
| 5 | expands | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 floats | advcl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 freezes | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 freezes | nsubj |
| 8 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 expands | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighter | punct |
| 10 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 13 lighter | cc |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lighter | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lighter | cop |
| 13 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 floats | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 amount | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 amount | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 amount | amod |
| 17 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lighter | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 amount | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Ice | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | expand | present | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | freeze | present | water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | ice | than the same amount of water; light property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | amount | water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:21.
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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