Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 19

A propeller's twisted blades push water backwards as they spin, so the ship moves forward; the biggest ship propellers are taller than a house.

Who acts: twisted blades, blades, ship, biggest ship propellers · What happens: push, spin, move forward, be · To what, where: water

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 (twisted blades, blades, ship, biggest ship propellers), 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	2 propeller	det
2	propeller	propeller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blades	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 propeller	case
4	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blades	amod
5	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 push	nsubj
6	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 push	obj
8	backwards	backward	ADV	_	6 push	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 spin	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spin	nsubj
11	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 push	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 moves	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 moves	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moves	nsubj
16	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 push	conj
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	16 moves	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 taller	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 propellers	det
20	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 propellers	amod
21	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 propellers	compound
22	propellers	propeller	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taller	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taller	cop
24	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 moves	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taller	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 push	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	present	a propeller's twisted blades	water	backward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	spin	present	blades = blade			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	move forward	present	the ship		forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the biggest ship propellers		than a house; tall property	tree rules

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:19.

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): no change. 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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