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title: Archimedes is said to have noticed this in his bath and shouted "Eur… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: Archimedes is said to have noticed this in his bath and shouted "Eureka!", but the story may not be true. Who acts: story. 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 9

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Archimedes is said to have noticed this in his bath and shouted "Eureka!", but the story may not be true.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** say, notice, shout, not be · **To what, where:** Archimedes, this, bath, Eureka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story), 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:9
# text = Archimedes is said to have noticed this in his bath and shouted "Eureka!", but the story may not be true.
# 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	Archimedes	Archimedes	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Eureka	Eureka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Archimedes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | this |  | Archimedes's bath |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  | Eureka |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eureka=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** | may | the story |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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