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title: You float best lying back with your lungs full of air, and breathing… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: You float best lying back with your lungs full of air, and breathing out makes you sink a little. Who acts: You, breathing. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 15

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You float best lying back with your lungs full of air, and breathing out makes you sink a little.

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**Who acts:** You, breathing · **What happens:** float, lie back, breathe out, make, sink · **To what, where:** little

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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 (You, breathing), 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:15
# text = You float best lying back with your lungs full of air, and breathing out makes you sink a little.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
21	.	.	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 | **float** | present | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie back** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your lungs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **breathe out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | breathing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sink** | infinitive | you | a little |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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