--- title: A canal lock lifts or lowers boats by filling or emptying a chamber… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: A canal lock lifts or lowers boats by filling or emptying a chamber between gates; the Panama Canal's locks lift ships about 26 metres. Who acts: locks. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 17 A canal lock lifts or lowers boats by filling or emptying a chamber between gates; the Panama Canal's locks lift ships about 26 metres. **Who acts:** locks · **What happens:** lift, lower, fill, empty · **To what, where:** boats, chamber, ships 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 (locks), 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:17 # text = A canal lock lifts or lowers boats by filling or emptying a chamber between gates; the Panama Canal's locks lift ships about 26 metres. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 filling fill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 emptying empty VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 between between ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **lift** | present | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lower** | present | | boats | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 3 | **fill** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **empty** | gerund | | a chamber | | | | between gates | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chamber=Source | | 5 | **lift** | present | the Panama Canal's locks | ships | | | | 26 metres *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | 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:17`. **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. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/16/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)