--- title: A ship floats because its hollow shape pushes aside water weighing a… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: A ship floats because its hollow shape pushes aside water weighing as much as the ship; a steel nail sinks but a steel ship floats. Who acts: ship, hollow shape, water, steel nail. 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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 (ship, hollow shape, water, steel nail), 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:7 # text = A ship floats because its hollow shape pushes aside water weighing as much as the ship; a steel nail sinks but a steel ship 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 8 mark _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss 6 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 7 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 aside aside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 weighing weigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 steel steel NOUN NN _ 25 compound _ _ 25 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 27 . . 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 | **float** | present | a ship | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push** | present | ship's hollow shape | water | | | | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **weigh** | gerund | water *not said here* | much | | | | as the ship | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 4 | **sink** | present | a steel nail | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **float** | present | a steel ship | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/6/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)