Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 6

If the upthrust can grow as big as the object's weight, the object floats; if the object sinks fully under and the upthrust is still smaller than its weight, it sinks.

Who acts: upthrust, object · What happens: grow, float, sink, be

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 (upthrust, object), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 grow	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 upthrust	det
3	upthrust	upthrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 floats	advcl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 weight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 object	det
10	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weight	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 object	case
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 floats	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 object	det
15	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floats	nsubj
16	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sinks	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sinks	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 sinks	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 object	det
20	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sinks	nsubj
21	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sinks	advcl
22	fully	fully	ADV	_	21 sinks	advmod
23	under	under	ADV	_	21 sinks	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 smaller	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 upthrust	det
26	upthrust	upthrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smaller	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 smaller	cop
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 smaller	advmod
29	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sinks	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 weight	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 weight	nmod:poss
32	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smaller	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sinks	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sinks	nsubj
35	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 floats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow a condition, not said to happen	can	the upthrust		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	present	the object			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink a condition, not said to happen	present	the object		fully, under property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	the upthrust	still	than object's weight; small property	tree rules
5	sink	present	object			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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