Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 7

A ship floats because its hollow shape pushes aside water weighing as much as the ship; a steel nail sinks but a steel ship floats.

Who acts: ship, hollow shape, water, steel nail, steel ship · What happens: float, push, weigh, sink · To what, where: water, much

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, hollow shape, water, steel nail), 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 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	8 pushes	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shape	nmod:poss
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shape	amod
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushes	nsubj
8	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	advcl
9	aside	aside	ADV	_	8 pushes	advmod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushes	obj
11	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 water	acl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weighing	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 ship	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 much	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sinks	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nail	det
19	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nail	compound
20	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sinks	nsubj
21	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	parataxis
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 floats	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ship	det
24	steel	steel	NOUN	_	25 ship	compound
25	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 floats	nsubj
26	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sinks	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	present	a ship			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	present	ship's hollow shape	water	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	weigh	gerund	water not said here	much	as the ship	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
4	sink	present	a steel nail			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	float	present	a steel ship			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:7.

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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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