--- title: A steel paper clip placed gently rests on the water's skin; it is no… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics description: A steel paper clip placed gently rests on the water's skin; it is not floating like a boat, and pushed through the skin it sinks. Who acts: paper clip, clip. 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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 (paper clip, clip), 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:15 # text = A steel paper clip placed gently rests on the water's skin; it is not floating like a boat, and pushed through the skin it sinks. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 gently gently ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 7 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 floating float VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **place** | participle | | a paper clip *not said here* | | | | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rest** | present | a paper clip | | | the water's skin | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location | | 3 | **not** **float** | present · progressive | clip | | | | | like a boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **push** | participle | clip *not said here* | | | the skin | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through skin=Trajectory | | 5 | **sink** | present | clip | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:15`. **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 ×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 in the real world: ice, subma…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/14/) - next →: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/)