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title: Water also holds up most of your weight, so a friend feels light in… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: Water also holds up most of your weight, so a friend feels light in the pool, and a boat stays steady only while its weight is kept low. Who acts: Water, friend, boat. A sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Water safety and the ocean, sentence 2

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Water also holds up most of your weight, so a friend feels light in the pool, and a boat stays steady only while its weight is kept low.

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**Who acts:** Water, friend, boat · **What happens:** hold up, feel, stay, keep · **To what, where:** most, weight

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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, friend, boat), 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:2
# text = Water also holds up most of your weight, so a friend feels light in the pool, and a boat stays steady only while its weight is kept low.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound:prt
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
23	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Water | most of your weight |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a friend |  |  |  |  | in the pool; light *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pool=Attribute |
| 3 | **stay** | present | a boat |  |  |  |  | steady *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present · passive |  | water's weight |  |  |  | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:2`.

**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 ×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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