Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 11
To take a boat up through a lock: it goes in, the bottom gates are shut, small sluices in the top gates let water in, the boat rises, and when the water is level the top gates open; the water that flows in is the lock's length times its width times how far the water rises, in cubic metres.
Who acts: boat, bottom gates, small sluices, water · What happens: take up, go in, be, let in, rise, flow · To what, where: boat, lock, water, cubic metres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» 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 (boat, bottom gates, small sluices, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 take | mark |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 take | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 lock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lock | det |
| 8 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 goes | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shut | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gates | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gates | compound |
| 16 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shut | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shut | cop |
| 18 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goes | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sluices | amod |
| 21 | sluices | sluice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 let | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 gates | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gates | det |
| 24 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gates | amod |
| 25 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sluices | nmod |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 goes | parataxis |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 let | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rises | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boat | det |
| 31 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rises | nsubj |
| 32 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 level | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 level | cc |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 level | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 level | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 level | cop |
| 39 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 let | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gates | det |
| 41 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gates | amod |
| 42 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 open | nsubj |
| 43 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 level | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 water | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 water | det |
| 46 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 times | nsubj |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 flows | nsubj |
| 48 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 water | acl:relcl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 times | case |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 times | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 lock | det |
| 52 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 length | nmod:poss |
| 53 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 52 lock | case |
| 54 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 times | compound |
| 55 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | parataxis |
| 56 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 times | nmod:poss |
| 57 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 times | compound |
| 58 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 times | conj |
| 59 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 60 far | advmod |
| 60 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 flows | advmod |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 water | det |
| 62 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 rises | nsubj |
| 63 | rises | rise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 far | nsubj |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 metres | punct |
| 65 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 metres | case |
| 66 | cubic | cubic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 metres | amod |
| 67 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 rises | obl |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | 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 | take up | to-infinitive | a boat | a lock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | present | boat | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the bottom gates | shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let in | infinitive | small sluices in the top gates | water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | present | the boat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the water | level property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | flow | present | the water | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | the water | in length times and boat's width times | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | rise | the water | cubic metres | tree rules |
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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:11.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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