--- title: A canoe tips over if someone stands up suddenly, because a boat is s… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics description: A canoe tips over if someone stands up suddenly, because a boat is steady only while its weight is low, so keep low and in the middle. Who acts: canoe, someone, boat, weight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canoe, someone, boat, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:14 # text = A canoe tips over if someone stands up suddenly, because a boat is steady only while its weight is low, so keep low and in the middle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tips tip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tip over** | present | a canoe | | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a boat | | | | | steady *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | boat's weight | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | | | | | | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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](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:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Water safety and the ocean, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/12/) - next →: [Water safety and the ocean, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/)