Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 23
Things feel lighter in water because the upthrust holds up part of their weight.
Who acts: Things, upthrust · What happens: feel, hold up · To what, where: part
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 (Things, upthrust), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 holds | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 upthrust | det |
| 8 | upthrust | upthrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | nsubj |
| 9 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 holds | compound:prt |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 weight | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 weight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | 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 | feel | present | Things | in water; light property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in water=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold up | present | the upthrust | part of Things's weight | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot part=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:23.
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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