--- title: An egg sinks in tap water but floats when lots of salt is stirred in… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics description: An egg sinks in tap water but floats when lots of salt is stirred in, and a rotten egg floats even in fresh water because gas has built up inside. Who acts: egg, rotten egg, gas. 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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 (egg, rotten egg, gas), 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:14 # text = An egg sinks in tap water but floats when lots of salt is stirred in, and a rotten egg floats even in fresh water because gas has built up inside. # 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 10 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 stirred stir VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 15 in in ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 20 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound 21 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 22 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 29 mark _ _ 27 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 inside inside ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sink** | present | a egg | | | tap water | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **float** | present | a egg *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stir in** | present · passive | | lots of salt | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **float** | present | a rotten egg | | | fresh water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 5 | **build up** | present · perfect | gas | | | | | inside *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:14`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/13/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/)