Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 10
A submarine can choose to float or sink.
Who acts: submarine · What happens: choose, float, sink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» 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 (submarine), 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 submarine | det |
| 2 | submarine | submarine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | aux |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 float | mark |
| 6 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 choose | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sink | cc |
| 8 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 float | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | can | a submarine | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | float | to-infinitive | a submarine not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink | infinitive | a submarine not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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