--- title: Water pushes up on anything placed in it; this push is called upthru… — Floating and sinking: the push of water · tree and pragmatics description: Water pushes up on anything placed in it; this push is called upthrust. Who acts: Water. A sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Floating and sinking: the push of water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/) / 12 # Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 12 Water pushes up on anything placed in it; this push is called upthrust. **Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** push up, place, call · **To what, where:** water, push · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» of the world 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:12 # text = Water pushes up on anything placed in it; this push is called upthrust. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 083-floating-and-sinking.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obl _ _ 6 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 upthrust upthrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **push up** | present | Water | | | | | on anything | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on anything=Theme | | 2 | **place** | participle | | | | water | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | this push | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Floating and sinking: the push of water, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/11/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of water, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/)