Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 2
If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats.
Who acts: ship, water, deck · What happens: push, weigh, reach, float · To what, where: water, much, waterline
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 (ship, water, deck), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 pushes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushes | nsubj |
| 4 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 floats | advcl |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 4 pushes | advmod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushes | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 weighs | nsubj |
| 8 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weighs | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ship | amod |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 reaches | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 deck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reaches | nsubj |
| 18 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weighs | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waterline | det |
| 20 | waterline | waterline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reaches | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weighs | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 floats | nsubj |
| 23 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push a condition, not said to happen | present | the ship | water | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | water | much | as the whole ship | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | |||
| 3 | reach | present | water's deck | the waterline | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waterline=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | present | water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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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