Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 13

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, is the only sea exit from the Persian Gulf, and normally about a fifth of the oil the world uses passes through it.

Who acts: Strait, world, fifth · What happens: be, use, pass · To what, where: only sea exit, Persian Gulf, oil, strait

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, world, fifth), 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	15 exit	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hormuz	case
4	Hormuz	Hormuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Strait	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Iran	punct
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 Iran	case
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Strait	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Oman	cc
9	Oman	Oman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Iran	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Strait	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 exit	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 exit	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 exit	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exit	compound
15	exit	exit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 Gulf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Gulf	det
18	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Gulf	compound
19	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 exit	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 exit	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 passes	cc
22	normally	normally	ADV	_	32 passes	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 fifth	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fifth	det
25	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 passes	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 oil	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 oil	det
28	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fifth	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 uses	nsubj
31	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 oil	acl:relcl
32	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 exit	conj
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 passes	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 exit	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman	the only sea exit	the Persian Gulf		tree rules
2	use	present	the world	the oil not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
3	pass	present	a fifth of the oil		strait	normally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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