Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 15

Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one they are seeing; British lighthouses now run automatically, without keepers.

Who acts: lighthouse, sailors, British lighthouses, water · What happens: flash, know, see, run, pattern · To what, where: own pattern, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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 (lighthouse, sailors, British lighthouses, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 lighthouse	det
2	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flashes	nsubj
3	flashes	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pattern	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pattern	amod
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flashes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 know	advmod
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flashes	conj
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seeing	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seeing	aux
15	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 know	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 run	punct
17	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lighthouses	amod
18	lighthouses	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 run	nsubj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 run	advmod
20	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flashes	conj
21	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	20 run	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keepers	punct
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 keepers	case
24	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 run	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flashes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	flash	present	each lighthouse	water's own pattern			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	know	present	sailors				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	see	present · progressive	sailors = sailor	which one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	run	present	British lighthouses		now	without keepers; automatically property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pattern		water				nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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.

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