Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 7
A lump of clay sinks, but shaped into a hollow boat it pushes aside much more water and floats.
Who acts: lump · What happens: sink, shape, push, float · To what, where: hollow boat, more 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 (lump), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lump | det |
| 2 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinks | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 clay | case |
| 4 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lump | nmod |
| 5 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pushes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushes | cc |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pushes | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaped | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pushes | nsubj |
| 14 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sinks | conj |
| 15 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 pushes | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushes | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 floats | cc |
| 20 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pushes | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | a lump of clay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shape | participle | lump not said here | a hollow boat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into boat=Product | ||||
| 3 | push | present | lump | more water | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 4 | float | present | lump not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: 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:7.
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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