--- title: A big beach ball moves aside lots of water but weighs little, so it… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics description: A big beach ball moves aside lots of water but weighs little, so it is hard to hold under and shoots back up. Who acts: big beach ball. 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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 (big beach ball), 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:7 # text = A big beach ball moves aside lots of water but weighs little, so it is hard to hold under and shoots back up. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 3 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 aside aside ADV RB _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp 20 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **move aside** | present | a big beach ball | lots of water | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme lot=Result | | 2 | **weigh** | present | a big beach ball *not said here* | | | | | little *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | | | | shoots | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shoot=Location | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/6/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of the…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/)