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title: A kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stones weigh the same, but… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stones weigh the same, but the feathers take up much more room. Who acts: kilogram, feathers. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 11

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A kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stones weigh the same, but the feathers take up much more room.

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**Who acts:** kilogram, feathers · **What happens:** weigh, take up · **To what, where:** same, more room

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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 (kilogram, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:11
# text = A kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stones weigh the same, but the feathers take up much more room.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **weigh** | present | a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stones | the same |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |
| 2 | **take up** | present | the feathers | more room |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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