--- title: Container ships carry thousands of metal boxes of standard sizes, so… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: Container ships carry thousands of metal boxes of standard sizes, so any crane, ship, train or lorry can lift and carry them; most things in our shops travelled part of the way in a container. Who acts: Container ships, crane, most things. 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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 (Container ships, crane, most things), 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:9 # text = Container ships carry thousands of metal boxes of standard sizes, so any crane, ship, train or lorry can lift and carry them; most things in our shops travelled part of the way in a container. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 33 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 . . 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 | **carry** | present | Container ships | thousands of metal boxes of standard sizes | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **lift** | can | any crane and ship and train or lorry | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | infinitive | any crane and ship and train or lorry *not said here* | cranes *= crane* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **travel** | past | most things in our shops | part of the way | | a container | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Trajectory | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/8/) - next →: [Ships, ports and submarines, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/)