Materials and their properties, sentence 4
A steel ship floats because its hollow shape is full of air and pushes aside a great deal of water.
Who acts: steel ship, hollow shape · What happens: float, be, push aside, deal · To what, where: great deal, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 (steel ship, hollow shape), 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 | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 full | mark |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shape | amod |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floats | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushes | cc |
| 14 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | conj |
| 15 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 pushes | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deal | amod |
| 18 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deal | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floats | 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 | float | present | a steel ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | ship's hollow shape | of air; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push aside | present | ship's hollow shape not said here | a great deal of water | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deal | water | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:world:018-materials-and-properties.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): 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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