--- title: Spilled oil floats on the sea and coats birds' feathers, so they can… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics description: Spilled oil floats on the sea and coats birds' feathers, so they cannot keep warm or fly; rescuers wash them with washing-up liquid. Who acts: Spilled oil, feathers, rescuers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spilled oil, feathers, rescuers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:10 # text = Spilled oil floats on the sea and coats birds' feathers, so they cannot keep warm or fly; rescuers wash them with washing-up liquid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 007-oil-and-water.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Spilled spill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 coats coat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 22 rescuers rescuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wash wash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spill** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **float** | present | Spilled oil | | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory | | 3 | **coat** | present | Spilled oil *not said here* | birds's feathers | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feather=Destination | | 4 | **not** **keep** | can | feathers *= feather* | | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fly** | infinitive | feathers *= feather* *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wash** | present | rescuers | feathers *= feather* | | | | with washing liquid | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with liquid=Instrument | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Oil and water, and things that won't mix, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/9/) - next →: [Oil and water, and things that won't mix, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/)