--- title: Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one t… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one they are seeing; British lighthouses now run automatically, without keepers. Who acts: lighthouse, sailors, British lighthouses, water. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Ships, ports and submarines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/) / 15 # Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 15 Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one they are seeing; British lighthouses now run automatically, without keepers. **Who acts:** lighthouse, sailors, British lighthouses, water · **What happens:** flash, know, see, run, pattern · **To what, where:** own pattern, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lighthouse, sailors, British lighthouses, water), 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:15 # text = Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern, so sailors know which one they are seeing; British lighthouses now run automatically, without keepers. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 lighthouse lighthouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flashes flash 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 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 12 det _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 17 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 lighthouses lighthouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 21 automatically automatically ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **flash** | present | each lighthouse | water's own pattern | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | sailors | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | present · progressive | sailors *= sailor* | which one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 4 | **run** | present | British lighthouses | | | | now | without keepers; automatically *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pattern** | | water | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/13/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)