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title: It lets water into its tanks to become heavier and dive, and blows t… — Floating and sinking: the push of water · tree and pragmatics
description: It lets water into its tanks to become heavier and dive, and blows the water out with air to become lighter and rise. Who acts: submarine. A sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Floating and sinking: the push of water, sentence 11

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It lets water into its tanks to become heavier and dive, and blows the water out with air to become lighter and rise.

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**Who acts:** submarine · **What happens:** let, become, dive, blow out, rise · **To what, where:** water, tanks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating and sinking: the push of water» of the world 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 (submarine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:083-floating-and-sinking.lesson:11
# text = It lets water into its tanks to become heavier and dive, and blows the water out with air to become lighter and rise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 083-floating-and-sinking.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	lighter	lighter	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | submarine | water |  | submarine's tanks |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | submarine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dive** | infinitive | submarine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **blow out** | present | submarine *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | with air | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | to-infinitive | submarine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lighter *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **rise** | infinitive | submarine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:083-floating-and-sinking.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): R8-pos-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/).

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