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title: The water that fills a lock is its length times its width times the… — Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The water that fills a lock is its length times its width times the height the water rises: a lock 20 metres long and 2 metres wide that rises 3 metres takes 120 cubic metres. Who acts: water, that. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology course of M
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# Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 13

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The water that fills a lock is its length times its width times the height the water rises: a lock 20 metres long and 2 metres wide that rises 3 metres takes 120 cubic metres.

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**Who acts:** water, that · **What happens:** fill, be, rise, take · **To what, where:** lock, length times, lock metres, 3 metres, 120 cubic metres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» 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 (water, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:13
# text = The water that fills a lock is its length times its width times the height the water rises: a lock 20 metres long and 2 metres wide that rises 3 metres takes 120 cubic metres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj
33	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	cubic	cubic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | the water | a lock |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the water | length times and width times and the height |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | present | the water | lock metres and 2 metres |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | present | that | 3 metres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | present | that *not said here* | 120 cubic metres |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Theme |

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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.

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**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:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:13`.

**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. **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/).

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