Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 17

A canal lock lifts or lowers boats by filling or emptying a chamber between gates; the Panama Canal's locks lift ships about 26 metres.

Who acts: locks · What happens: lift, lower, fill, empty · To what, where: boats, chamber, ships

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 (locks), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lifts	det
2	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	compound
3	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifts	compound
4	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 lowers	cc
6	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifts	conj
7	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lowers	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 filling	mark
9	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lowers	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 emptying	cc
11	emptying	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 filling	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chamber	det
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 emptying	obj
14	between	between	ADP	_	15 gates	case
15	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chamber	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lift	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Canal	det
18	Panama	Panama	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Canal	compound
19	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 locks	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Canal	case
21	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lift	nsubj
22	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifts	conj
23	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lift	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 26	advmod
25	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 metres	nummod
26	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lift	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifts	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift	present				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lower	present		boats		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	fill	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	empty	gerund		a chamber	between gates	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chamber=Source
5	lift	present	the Panama Canal's locks	ships	26 metres obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme

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:17.

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): R5-strong ×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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