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title: A loaded ship sits lower in the water, and a line painted on its sid… — Floating and sinking: the push of the water · tree and pragmatics
description: A loaded ship sits lower in the water, and a line painted on its side shows how deep it may safely sit. Who acts: loaded ship, line, ship. A sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Floating and sinking: the push of the water, sentence 12

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A loaded ship sits lower in the water, and a line painted on its side shows how deep it may safely sit.

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**Who acts:** loaded ship, line, ship · **What happens:** load, sit, paint, show · **To what, where:** water, line, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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 (loaded ship, line, ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.lesson:12
# text = A loaded ship sits lower in the water, and a line painted on its side shows how deep it may safely sit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 011-floating-and-sinking.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	safely	safely	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod
23	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | present | a loaded ship |  |  | the water |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | a line *not said here* |  | Water's side |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
| 4 | **show** | present | a line |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sit** | may | ship |  |  |  |  | deep, safely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:physics:011-floating-and-sinking.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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