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title: In a pool the water holds up most of your weight, because our bodies… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: In a pool the water holds up most of your weight, because our bodies are about as heavy as water for their size, which makes swimming good for sore joints. Who acts: water, bodies. A sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Water safety and the ocean, sentence 17

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In a pool the water holds up most of your weight, because our bodies are about as heavy as water for their size, which makes swimming good for sore joints.

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**Who acts:** water, bodies · **What happens:** hold up, be, make · **To what, where:** most, pool, swimming

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» 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 (water, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:17
# text = In a pool the water holds up most of your weight, because our bodies are about as heavy as water for their size, which makes swimming good for sore joints.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound:prt
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | present | the water | most of your weight |  | a pool |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | our bodies |  |  |  |  | as water; for bodies's size; about, heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | swimming |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swimming=Product |

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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:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:17`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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