Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 10
The Strait of Gibraltar is only about 14 km wide at its narrowest, separating Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa, and it is the only natural entrance to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic.
Who acts: Strait · What happens: be, separate · To what, where: narrowest, Spain, Europe, only natural entrance, Atlantic
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Strait | det |
| 2 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gibraltar | case |
| 4 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Strait | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wide | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 km | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 14 | advmod |
| 8 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 km | nummod |
| 9 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 narrowest | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 narrowest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | narrowest | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 wide | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 separating | punct |
| 15 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wide | advcl |
| 16 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 separating | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Europe | case |
| 18 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Spain | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Morocco | case |
| 20 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 separating | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Africa | case |
| 22 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Morocco | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 entrance | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 entrance | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 entrance | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 entrance | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 entrance | det |
| 28 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 entrance | amod |
| 29 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 entrance | amod |
| 30 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wide | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Mediterranean | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mediterranean | det |
| 33 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 entrance | nmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Atlantic | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Atlantic | det |
| 36 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 entrance | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wide | 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 | present | the Strait of Gibraltar | strait's narrowest | 14 km obl:unmarked; wide property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | separate | gerund | the Strait of Gibraltar not said here | Spain | Europe | from Morocco in Africa | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent spain=Patient from morocco=Co-Patient | ||
| 3 | is a | present | strait | the only natural entrance | the Atlantic | to the Mediterranean | tree rules |
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:10.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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