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title: About nine tenths of an iceberg is hidden below the sea, which is wh… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics
description: About nine tenths of an iceberg is hidden below the sea, which is why ships keep far away, as the Titanic found out in 1912. Who acts: sea, ships, Titanic. A sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 6

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About nine tenths of an iceberg is hidden below the sea, which is why ships keep far away, as the Titanic found out in 1912.

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**Who acts:** sea, ships, Titanic · **What happens:** hide, be, keep, find out · **To what, where:** nine tenths, sea, 1912

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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 (sea, ships, Titanic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:6
# text = About nine tenths of an iceberg is hidden below the sea, which is why ships keep far away, as the Titanic found out in 1912.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.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): no change
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	below	below	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Titanic	Titanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · passive |  | nine tenths of a iceberg |  | the sea |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient below sea=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present | ships |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find out** | past | the Titanic |  |  | 1912 |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:6`.

**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.

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

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