Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 8
Salty water is heavier than the same amount of fresh water, so it pushes up harder.
Who acts: Salty water, water · What happens: be, push up, amount · To what, where: fresh 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 (Salty water, 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 | Salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavier | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavier | cop |
| 4 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 amount | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 amount | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 amount | amod |
| 8 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavier | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 amount | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushes | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 pushes | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushes | nsubj |
| 15 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavier | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 pushes | compound:prt |
| 17 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 pushes | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavier | 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 | is | present | Salty water | than the same amount of fresh water; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | push up | present | water | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | amount | fresh water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:8.
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): R7-rel-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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