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description: The secret is shape: the hollow hull pushes aside a huge amount of water, and the water pushes back up with a force as big as the weight of the water pushed away. Who acts: secret, hollow hull, water, weight. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's p
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# Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 1

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The secret is shape: the hollow hull pushes aside a huge amount of water, and the water pushes back up with a force as big as the weight of the water pushed away.

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**Who acts:** secret, hollow hull, water, weight · **What happens:** be, push, push away, amount · **To what, where:** shape, huge amount, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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 (secret, hollow hull, water, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:1
# text = The secret is shape: the hollow hull pushes aside a huge amount of water, and the water pushes back up with a force as big as the weight of the water pushed away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 024-ships-ports-and-submarines.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | the secret | shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | present | the hollow hull | a huge amount of water |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | with a force | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **push away** | past | the weight of the water |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **amount** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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