Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 3
A squashed lump of the same steel pushes aside very little water, so it sinks.
Who acts: squashed lump, water · What happens: squash, push, sink · To what, where: little 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 (squashed lump, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lump | det |
| 2 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lump | amod |
| 3 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushes | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steel | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steel | amod |
| 7 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lump | nmod |
| 8 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sinks | advcl |
| 9 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 8 pushes | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sinks | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sinks | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sinks | nsubj |
| 16 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | push | present | a squashed lump of the same steel | little water | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 3 | sink | present | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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