Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 22

Oil floats on water because it is less dense than water: a cupful of oil weighs less than a cupful of water.

Who acts: Oil, water, cupful · What happens: float, be, weigh · 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 (Oil, water, cupful), 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	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 dense	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dense	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dense	cop
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 dense	advmod
9	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floats	advcl
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dense	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 cupful	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cupful	det
14	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weighs	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 oil	case
16	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cupful	nmod
17	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 floats	parataxis
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 weighs	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 cupful	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cupful	det
21	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weighs	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cupful	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 floats	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	float	present	Oil	water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
2	is	present	water		than water; dense, less property	tree rules
3	weigh	present	a cupful of oil		than a cupful of water; less property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: 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:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:22.

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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