Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 4
Squash a ball of modelling clay and it sinks in a bowl of water; press the same clay into a little boat and it floats.
Who acts: you, ball, water · What happens: squash, sink, press, float · To what, where: ball, bowl, same clay, little boat
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 (you, ball, 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 | Squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squash | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 clay | case |
| 5 | modelling | modelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clay | compound |
| 6 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sinks | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sinks | nsubj |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Squash | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bowl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bowl | det |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinks | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowl | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 press | punct |
| 16 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Squash | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clay | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clay | amod |
| 19 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 press | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 boat | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boat | amod |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 press | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 floats | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 floats | nsubj |
| 26 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Squash | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squash | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | imperative | you not said here | a ball of modelling clay | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | ball | a bowl of water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | press | infinitive | you not said here | the same clay | a little boat | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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