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title: If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics
description: If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats. Who acts: ship, water, deck. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 2

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If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats.

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**Who acts:** ship, water, deck · **What happens:** push, weigh, reach, float · **To what, where:** water, much, waterline

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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 (ship, water, deck), 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:2
# text = If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	waterline	waterline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the ship | water |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **weigh** | present | water | much |  |  |  | as the whole ship | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
| 3 | **reach** | present | water's deck | the waterline |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waterline=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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