Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 11

It lets water into its tanks to become heavier and dive, and blows the water out with air to become lighter and rise.

Who acts: submarine · What happens: let, become, dive, blow out, rise · To what, where: water, tanks

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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 tanks	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tanks	nmod:poss
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lets	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 become	mark
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tanks	acl
9	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 become	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dive	cc
11	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heavier	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blows	cc
14	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lets	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blows	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	14 blows	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 air	case
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blows	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 become	mark
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 blows	advcl
22	lighter	lighter	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 become	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rise	cc
24	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lighter	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lets	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	present	submarine	water	submarine's tanks		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	become	to-infinitive	submarine not said here			heavy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	dive	infinitive	submarine not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	blow out	present	submarine not said here	the water		with air	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	become	to-infinitive	submarine not said here			lighter property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	rise	infinitive	submarine not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): R8-pos-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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