Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 12

A lock needs no pump: water simply flows down from the higher part of the canal, and reservoirs keep the top of the canal full.

Who acts: lock, water, reservoirs · What happens: need, flow down, keep · To what, where: pump, higher part, top

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 (lock, water, reservoirs), 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 lock	det
2	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pump	det
5	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flows	nsubj
8	simply	simply	ADV	_	9 flows	advmod
9	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	parataxis
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 flows	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 part	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flows	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 canal	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 canal	det
17	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 keep	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keep	cc
20	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 keep	nsubj
21	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flows	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 canal	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 canal	det
26	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 top	nmod
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	a lock	no pump			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pump=Theme
2	flow down	present	water		the higher part of the canal	down, simply property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	reservoirs	the top of the canal		full property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:12.

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 ×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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