Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 1

Ships that want to go from one room to the other must squeeze through the door, so whoever holds its sides can watch, tax or block them.

Who acts: Ships, whoever · What happens: want, go, squeeze, hold, watch, tax · To what, where: one room, door, sides

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 (Ships, whoever), 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	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 squeeze	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ships	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 room	nummod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	obl
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 squeeze	aux
13	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 squeeze	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 holds	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 holds	advmod
19	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 holds	nsubj
20	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 squeeze	conj
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sides	nmod:poss
22	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 holds	obj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 watch	aux
24	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 holds	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tax	punct
26	tax	tax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 watch	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 block	cc
28	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 watch	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 block	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	Ships				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ships not said here		one room	to the other	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from room=Initial_Location to other=Destination
3	squeeze	must	Ships		the door		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through door=Trajectory
4	hold	present	whoever	door's sides			tree rules
5	watch	can	whoever not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	tax	infinitive	whoever not said here				vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	block	infinitive	whoever not said here	sides = side			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=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, 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:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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