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title: The rule of floating works for ice, oil, ships and even air: whateve… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule of floating works for ice, oil, ships and even air: whatever is lighter for its size rises above whatever is heavier for its size. Who acts: whatever, floating works. A sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of Mova's primary 
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# Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 0

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The rule of floating works for ice, oil, ships and even air: whatever is lighter for its size rises above whatever is heavier for its size.

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**Who acts:** whatever, floating works · **What happens:** float, be, rise, rule · **To what, where:** whatever

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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 (whatever, floating works), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:0
# text = The rule of floating works for ice, oil, ships and even air: whatever is lighter for its size rises above whatever is heavier for its size.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	csubj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  | for air's size; light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | present |  |  |  | whatever |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above whatever=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for size's size; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** |  | floating works for ice and oil |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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/).

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