--- title: Shape matters too: a ball of clay sinks, but the same clay pressed i… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics description: Shape matters too: a ball of clay sinks, but the same clay pressed into a little boat moves aside much more water and floats. Who acts: Shape, ball, same clay. 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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 (Shape, ball, same clay), 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:3 # text = Shape matters too: a ball of clay sinks, but the same clay pressed into a little boat moves aside much more water and floats. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:root 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 aside aside ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **matter** | present | Shape | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **sink** | present | a ball of clay | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **press** | participle | | the same clay *not said here* | | a little boat | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into boat=Trajectory | | 4 | **move** | present | the same clay | more water | | | | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 5 | **float** | present | the same clay *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/2/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/)