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title: A life jacket is full of foam or air, adding lots of size but little… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: A life jacket is full of foam or air, adding lots of size but little weight, and a good one turns you face up even if you cannot swim; it also keeps up a good swimmer who gets tired, cold or hurt. Who acts: life jacket, good one, you, jacket. A sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push 
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 17

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A life jacket is full of foam or air, adding lots of size but little weight, and a good one turns you face up even if you cannot swim; it also keeps up a good swimmer who gets tired, cold or hurt.

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**Who acts:** life jacket, good one, you, jacket, good swimmer · **What happens:** be, add, turn, face up, not swim, keep up · **To what, where:** lots, you, good swimmer

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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 (life jacket, good one, you, jacket), 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:17
# text = A life jacket is full of foam or air, adding lots of size but little weight, and a good one turns you face up even if you cannot swim; it also keeps up a good swimmer who gets tired, cold or hurt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a life jacket |  |  |  |  | of foam or air; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | a life jacket *not said here* | lots of size but little weight |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a good one | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **face up** | infinitive | a good one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **swim** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **keep up** | present | jacket | a good swimmer |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | present | a good swimmer |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **hurt** | infinitive | a good swimmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:17`.

**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): 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.

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