--- title: Some tiny things do not float at all but rest on the water's surface… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics description: Some tiny things do not float at all but rest on the water's surface, which behaves like a thin stretchy skin: that is how a pond skater walks on water. Who acts: tiny things, surface, that, 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 (tiny things, surface, that, 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:3 # text = Some tiny things do not float at all but rest on the water's surface, which behaves like a thin stretchy skin: that is how a pond skater walks on water. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 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 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 behaves behave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 19 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 skater skater NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **float** | present · do-support | some tiny things | | | all | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory | | 2 | **behave** | present | the water's surface | | | | | like a thin stretchy skin | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like skin=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | that | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | present | a pond skater | | | water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/2/) - next →: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/)