--- title: Something floats if it is lighter than the same size of water: wood… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics description: Something floats if it is lighter than the same size of water: wood floats, a stone sinks, and a hollow steel ship floats because it is mostly air inside. Who acts: Something, Water, hollow steel ship. 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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 (Something, Water, hollow steel ship), 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:2 # text = Something floats if it is lighter than the same size of water: wood floats, a stone sinks, and a hollow steel ship floats because it is mostly air 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 2 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 advcl _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 floats float NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 advcl _ _ 32 inside inside ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | present | Something | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Water | | | | | than the same size of water; light *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sink** | present | Something *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **float** | present | a hollow steel ship | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | Water | air | | | | inside, mostly *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×2. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/1/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/)