Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 16
An anchor is a heavy shaped hook that digs into the seabed, and the weight of its chain helps hold the ship; a giant ship's anchor can weigh more than ten cars.
Who acts: anchor, heavy shaped hook, weight · What happens: shape, be, dig, help, hold, weigh · To what, where: heavy shaped hook, ship, ten cars
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 (anchor, heavy shaped hook, weight), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 anchor | det |
| 2 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hook | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hook | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hook | det |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hook | amod |
| 6 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hook | amod |
| 7 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 digs | nsubj |
| 9 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hook | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 seabed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seabed | det |
| 12 | seabed | seabed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 digs | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 helps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 helps | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 weight | det |
| 16 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 helps | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chain | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chain | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weight | nmod |
| 20 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 digs | conj |
| 21 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 helps | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 weigh | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ship | det |
| 26 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ship | amod |
| 27 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 anchor | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 ship | case |
| 29 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 weigh | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 weigh | aux |
| 31 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 digs | conj |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 34 ten | advmod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 more | fixed |
| 34 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 cars | nummod |
| 35 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 weigh | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hook | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a anchor | a heavy shaped hook | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dig | present | a heavy shaped hook | into the seabed | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into seabed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | present | the weight of weight's chain | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hold | infinitive | the weight of weight's chain not said here | the ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 6 | weigh | can | a giant ship's anchor | ten cars | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme car=Value |
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:16.
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.
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