--- title: A can of normal cola sinks and a can of diet cola floats, because th… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics description: A can of normal cola sinks and a can of diet cola floats, because the sugar in normal cola makes it a little heavier. Who acts: can, sugar. 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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 (can, sugar), 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:12 # text = A can of normal cola sinks and a can of diet cola floats, because the sugar in normal cola makes it a little heavier. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cola cola NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 diet diet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 cola cola NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cola cola NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 25 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **sink** | present | a can of normal cola | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **float** | present | a can diet cola | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | the sugar in normal cola | can | | | | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:12`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/11/) - next →: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/)