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title: A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water. — Floating and sinking: the push of water · tree and pragmatics
description: A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water. Who acts: floating object. 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.
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# Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 13

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A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water.

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**Who acts:** floating object · **What happens:** float, push, displace · **To what, where:** water

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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 (floating object), 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:13
# text = A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	displaces	displace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | present | a floating object |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **displace** | present | a floating object *not said here* | some water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:13`.

**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/).

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