--- title: A submarine fills its tanks with water to sink and blows the water o… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: A submarine fills its tanks with water to sink and blows the water out with air to rise; its strong walls resist the squeeze of deep water, and some submarines stay under for months. Who acts: submarine, strong walls, submarines. 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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 (submarine, strong walls, submarines), 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:11 # text = A submarine fills its tanks with water to sink and blows the water out with air to rise; its strong walls resist the squeeze of deep water, and some submarines stay under for months. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 submarine submarine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 resist resist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 squeeze squeeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 submarines submarine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 under under ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | a submarine | deck's tanks | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tank=Patient with water=Instrument | | 2 | **sink** | to-infinitive | a submarine *not said here* | deck's tanks *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **blow out** | present | a submarine *not said here* | the water | | | | with air | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 4 | **rise** | to-infinitive | a submarine *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **resist** | present | deck's strong walls | the squeeze of deep water | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | present | some submarines | | | | month | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **squeeze** | | | deep water | | | | | nom squeeze «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:11`. **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 ×2. **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: [Ships, ports and submarines, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/10/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)