--- title: If the upthrust can grow as big as the object's weight, the object f… — Floating and sinking: the push of water · tree and pragmatics description: If the upthrust can grow as big as the object's weight, the object floats; if the object sinks fully under and the upthrust is still smaller than its weight, it sinks. Who acts: upthrust, object. 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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 (upthrust, 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:6 # text = If the upthrust can grow as big as the object's weight, the object floats; if the object sinks fully under and the upthrust is still smaller than its weight, it sinks. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 upthrust upthrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 22 fully fully ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 under under ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 upthrust upthrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | the upthrust | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **float** | present | the object | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sink** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the object | | | | | fully, under *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the upthrust | | | | still | than object's weight; small *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sink** | present | object | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:world:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/5/) - next →: [Floating and sinking: the push of water, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/)