Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 17
The more cargo a ship carries, the lower it sits in the water.
Who acts: ship · What happens: carry, sit · To what, where: more cargo, water
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 (ship), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cargo | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cargo | amod |
| 3 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cargo | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sits | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lower | det |
| 9 | lower | low | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 sits | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sits | nsubj |
| 11 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cargo | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sits | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a ship | the more cargo not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | ship | the water | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
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:17.
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): R6-punct-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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