--- title: Around the ships there is a whole world of machines: cranes stacking… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: Around the ships there is a whole world of machines: cranes stacking containers, lighthouses flashing their own patterns, locks lifting boats up hills of water, and submarines that sink and rise on purpose. Who acts: whole world, lighthouses, locks, submarines. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 6 Around the ships there is a whole world of machines: cranes stacking containers, lighthouses flashing their own patterns, locks lifting boats up hills of water, and submarines that sink and rise on purpose. **Who acts:** whole world, lighthouses, locks, submarines · **What happens:** be, stack, flash, lift up, sink, rise · **To what, where:** ships, own patterns, boats, purpose 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 (whole world, lighthouses, locks, 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:6 # text = Around the ships there is a whole world of machines: cranes stacking containers, lighthouses flashing their own patterns, locks lifting boats up hills of water, and submarines that sink and rise on purpose. # 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 Around around ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cranes crane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 13 stacking stack VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 containers container NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 lighthouses lighthouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 flashing flash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 23 lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 submarines submarine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a whole world of machines | | | the ships; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around ship=Location | | 2 | **stack** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **flash** | gerund | lighthouses *not said here* | lighthouses's own patterns | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | | 4 | **lift up** | gerund | locks *not said here* | boats | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme hill=Destination | | 5 | **sink** | present | submarines | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **rise** | present | submarines *not said here* | | | purpose | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on purpose=Location | | 7 | **pattern** | | lighthouses *= lighthouse* | | | | | | 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:6`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/4/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)