Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 0

A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of water, like a door between two rooms.

Who acts: strait, narrow stretch · What happens: be, join · To what, where: narrow stretch, two larger bodies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography 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 (strait, narrow stretch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strait	det
2	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretch	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stretch	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stretch	det
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stretch	amod
6	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretch	nmod
9	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stretch	acl
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bodies	nummod
11	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 bodies	amod
12	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 joining	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bodies	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 door	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretch	obl
19	between	between	ADP	_	21 rooms	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 rooms	nummod
21	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 door	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct

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	is a	present	a strait	a narrow stretch				of sea; like a door between two rooms	tree rules
2	join	gerund	a narrow stretch not said here	two larger bodies of water					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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, 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:geography:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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