--- title: Whether an object floats depends on its material and its shape, not… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics description: Whether an object floats depends on its material and its shape, not on its weight alone; things with air inside them, like an apple, are less dense and float more easily. Who acts: object, floats, things. 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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 (object, floats, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:14 # text = Whether an object floats depends on its material and its shape, not on its weight alone; things with air inside them, like an apple, are less dense and float more easily. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 018-materials-and-properties.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:mark 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 floats float NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 alone alone ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 inside inside ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 dense dense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 easily easily ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | | a object | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **depend** | present | floats | | | | | on object's material and object's shape and object's weight | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on material=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | things with air inside floats like a apple | | | | | dense, less *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **float** | present | things with air inside floats like a apple *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:14`. **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, 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: [Materials and their properties, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/13/) - next →: [Materials and their properties, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/)