Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 3
An object in water pushes some water out of the way; we say it displaces the water.
Who acts: object, we, water · What happens: push, say, displace · To what, where: water, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (object, we, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 object | nmod |
| 5 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | parataxis |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 displaces | nsubj |
| 16 | displaces | displace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 displaces | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | a object in water | some water | the way | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | displace | present | water | the water | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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