Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 9
That is why people float easily in the very salty Dead Sea, and why a ship sits a little higher in the sea than in a river.
Who acts: That, people, ship · What happens: be, float, sit · To what, where: salty Dead Sea
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 (That, people, ship), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 float | nsubj |
| 5 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 float | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sea | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 salty | advmod |
| 10 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Sea | amod |
| 11 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sea | compound |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 float | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sits | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sits | cc |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 sits | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | nsubj |
| 18 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 float | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 higher | obl |
| 21 | higher | higher | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 sits | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 higher | obl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | present | people | the salty Dead Sea | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | sit | present | a ship | than a river; higher property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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