--- title: A pond skater's light, waxy feet do not break the water's skin, and… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics description: A pond skater's light, waxy feet do not break the water's skin, and a drop of washing-up liquid weakens the skin so a resting paper clip sinks at once. Who acts: waxy feet, drop, resting paper clip, pond skater. 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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 (waxy feet, drop, resting paper clip, pond skater), 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:14 # text = A pond skater's light, waxy feet do not break the water's skin, and a drop of washing-up liquid weakens the skin so a resting paper clip sinks at once. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 skater skater NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 7 waxy waxy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 weakens weaken VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **not** **break** | present · do-support | waxy feet | the water's skin | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Patient | | 2 | **weaken** | present | a drop of washing liquid | the skin | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 3 | **rest** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sink** | present | a resting paper clip | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **light** | | a pond skater | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:14`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/13/) - next →: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/)