--- title: An anchor is a heavy shaped hook that digs into the seabed, and the… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: An anchor is a heavy shaped hook that digs into the seabed, and the weight of its chain helps hold the ship; a giant ship's anchor can weigh more than ten cars. Who acts: anchor, heavy shaped hook, 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 (anchor, heavy shaped hook, 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:16 # text = An anchor is a heavy shaped hook that digs into the seabed, and the weight of its chain helps hold the ship; a giant ship's anchor can weigh more than ten cars. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 anchor anchor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 anchor anchor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 34 advmod _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | present | a anchor | a heavy shaped hook | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dig** | present | a heavy shaped hook | | | | | into the seabed | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into seabed=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present | the weight of weight's chain | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **hold** | infinitive | the weight of weight's chain *not said here* | the ship | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | | 6 | **weigh** | can | a giant ship's anchor | ten cars | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme car=Value | 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:16`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Ships, ports and submarines, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/15/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)