Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 6
Around the ships there is a whole world of machines: cranes stacking containers, lighthouses flashing their own patterns, locks lifting boats up hills of water, and submarines that sink and rise on purpose.
Who acts: whole world, lighthouses, locks, submarines · What happens: be, stack, flash, lift up, sink, rise · To what, where: ships, own patterns, boats, purpose
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 (whole world, lighthouses, locks, submarines), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 ships | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ships | det |
| 3 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 machines | case |
| 10 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 world | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 cranes | punct |
| 12 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 world | appos |
| 13 | stacking | stack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 containers | amod |
| 14 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cranes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lighthouses | punct |
| 16 | lighthouses | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cranes | conj |
| 17 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lighthouses | acl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 patterns | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 patterns | amod |
| 20 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flashing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 locks | punct |
| 22 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cranes | conj |
| 23 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 locks | acl |
| 24 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lifting | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 lifting | compound:prt |
| 26 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lifting | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hills | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 submarines | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 submarines | cc |
| 31 | submarines | submarine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cranes | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 sink | nsubj |
| 33 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 submarines | acl:relcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rise | cc |
| 35 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sink | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 purpose | case |
| 37 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rise | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a whole world of machines | the ships; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around ship=Location | ||||
| 2 | stack | gerund | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | flash | gerund | lighthouses not said here | lighthouses's own patterns | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lift up | gerund | locks not said here | boats | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme hill=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sink | present | submarines | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | rise | present | submarines not said here | purpose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on purpose=Location | ||||
| 7 | pattern | lighthouses = lighthouse | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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): R8-pos-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.
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