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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 (boat, bottom gates, small sluices, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:11 # text = To take a boat up through a lock: it goes in, the bottom gates are shut, small sluices in the top gates let water in, the boat rises, and when the water is level the top gates open; the water that flows in is the lock's length times its width times how far the water rises, in cubic metres. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sluices sluice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 level level ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ _ 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 56 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 57 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 conj _ _ 59 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 60 advmod _ _ 60 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=63:det 62 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=63:compound 63 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj _ _ 64 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 cubic cubic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **take up** | to-infinitive | | a boat | | a lock | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 2 | **go in** | present | boat | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the bottom gates | | | | | shut *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **let in** | infinitive | small sluices in the top gates | water | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | present | the boat | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | the water | | | | | level *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **flow** | present | the water | | | | | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | the water | | | | in length times and boat's width times | | tree rules | | 9 | **rise** | | the water | | | cubic metres | | | tree rules | 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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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