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title: Water pushes up on anything you put in it, and the push is as big as… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: Water pushes up on anything you put in it, and the push is as big as the weight of the water the thing moves out of the way. Who acts: Water, you, push, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 0

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Water pushes up on anything you put in it, and the push is as big as the weight of the water the thing moves out of the way.

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**Who acts:** Water, you, push, thing · **What happens:** push up, put, be, move out · **To what, where:** Water, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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 (Water, you, push, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.lesson:0
# text = Water pushes up on anything you put in it, and the push is as big as the weight of the water the thing moves out of the way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 011-floating-and-sinking.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push up** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | on anything | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on anything=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | you |  |  | Water |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | the push |  |  |  |  | as the weight of the water; big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **move out** | present | the thing | the way |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme |

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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.

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**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:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.lesson:0`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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