Assertion: alewife's egg | /r/CapableOf | sink to the bottom
Facets:
value: to
type: PURPOSE
value: normally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The slightest current and turbulence, resulting from wave action and convection of the water, constantly lift such eggs, which would normally sink to the bottom.
text: Females scatter the adhesive eggs which sink to the bottom and stick to whatever they come into contact with.
text: The eggs sink to the bottom, where they stick in layers or clumps to gravel, seaweed, or stones, by means of their mucous coating, or to any other objects on which they chance to settle.