--- title: Canals cannot run uphill, so engineers built locks: boxes of water w… — Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mi… · tree and pragmatics description: Canals cannot run uphill, so engineers built locks: boxes of water with gates at each end that lift a boat up or let it down like a water lift, with no pump at all, only water flowing downhill. Who acts: Canals, engineers, gates, water. 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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 (Canals, engineers, gates, 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:4 # text = Canals cannot run uphill, so engineers built locks: boxes of water with gates at each end that lift a boat up or let it down like a water lift, with no pump at all, only water flowing downhill. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 uphill uphill ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 42 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 downhill downhill ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run** | can | Canals | | | | | uphill *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **build** | past | engineers | locks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lock=Product | | 3 | **lift up** | present | gates at each end | a boat | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 4 | **let down** | present | gates at each end *not said here* | canal | | | | like a water lift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **flow** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | | | downhill *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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