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title: Salty water is heavier than fresh water, so it pushes up harder, and… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: Salty water is heavier than fresh water, so it pushes up harder, and in the very salty Dead Sea people float sitting up. Who acts: Salty water, Water, people. 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 tre
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 13

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Salty water is heavier than fresh water, so it pushes up harder, and in the very salty Dead Sea people float sitting up.

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**Who acts:** Salty water, Water, people · **What happens:** be, push up, float, sit up

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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 (Salty water, Water, people), 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:13
# text = Salty water is heavier than fresh water, so it pushes up harder, and in the very salty Dead Sea people float sitting up.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Salty water |  |  |  |  | than fresh water; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push up** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **float** | present | people in the salty Dead Sea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit up** | gerund | people in the salty Dead Sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:13`.

**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, R3-conj-first ×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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