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title: Sealed plastic bottles are full of air, so a raft of many bottles ca… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sealed plastic bottles are full of air, so a raft of many bottles can hold up a child, but people on such rafts should still wear life jackets. Who acts: Sealed plastic bottles, raft, people. A sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of
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# Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 16

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Sealed plastic bottles are full of air, so a raft of many bottles can hold up a child, but people on such rafts should still wear life jackets.

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**Who acts:** Sealed plastic bottles, raft, people · **What happens:** seal, be, hold up, wear · **To what, where:** child, life jackets

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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 (Sealed plastic bottles, raft, people), 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:16
# text = Sealed plastic bottles are full of air, so a raft of many bottles can hold up a child, but people on such rafts should still wear life jackets.
# 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): no change
1	Sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	jackets	jacket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Sealed plastic bottles |  |  |  |  | of air; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold up** | can | a raft of many bottles | a child |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | should | people on such rafts | life jackets |  |  | still |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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): no change. **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.

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