--- title: Some puzzles hide a trap in the words: "Which is heavier, a kilogram… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some puzzles hide a trap in the words: "Which is heavier, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of stones?" Neither, both weigh a kilogram, though the feathers fill far more room. Who acts: puzzles, both, feathers. 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Neither, both weigh a kilogram, though the feathers fill far more room. **Who acts:** puzzles, both, feathers · **What happens:** hide, be, weigh, fill · **To what, where:** trap, words, kilogram, more room · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (puzzles, both, 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:2 # text = Some puzzles hide a trap in the words: "Which is heavier, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of stones?" Neither, both weigh a kilogram, though the feathers fill far 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 kilogram kilogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 kilogram kilogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 Neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 discourse _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 29 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 kilogram kilogram NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | some puzzles | a trap | | the words | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of stones *obl*; heavy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **weigh** | present | both | a kilogram | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 4 | **fill** | present | the feathers | more room | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | 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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: forces, floating and machine…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: forces, floating and machine…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines/)