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title: Water pushes up on anything in it, with a force as big as the weight… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: Water pushes up on anything in it, with a force as big as the weight of the water it moves aside. Who acts: Water. 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 clause.
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 5

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Water pushes up on anything in it, with a force as big as the weight of the water it moves aside.

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**Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** push up, move · **To what, where:** water

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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 (Water), 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:5
# text = Water pushes up on anything in it, with a force as big as the weight of the water it moves aside.
# 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): no change
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **push up** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | with a force; on anything | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on anything=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | Water | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme water=Result |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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