--- title: A steel ship floats because it is hollow and full of air, so the wat… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics description: A steel ship floats because it is hollow and full of air, so the water it moves aside weighs more than the ship; squashed into a lump, it would sink. Who acts: steel ship, ship, Water. 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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 (steel ship, ship, Water), 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:10 # text = A steel ship floats because it is hollow and full of air, so the water it moves aside weighs more than the ship; squashed into a lump, it would sink. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 aside aside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | present | a steel ship | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | ship | | | | | hollow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | ship *not said here* | | | | | of air | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | present | Water | the water *not said here* | | | | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme water=Result | | 5 | **weigh** | present | the water | more | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 6 | **squash** | participle | Water *not said here* | | | a lump | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lump=Location | | 7 | **sink** | would | Water | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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](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: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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/9/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/)