Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 14
The Strait of Dover between England and France is about 33 km wide, so on a clear day you can see France from Dover, and it is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
Who acts: Strait, you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: France, Dover, one
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, you), 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 | 13 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Dover | case |
| 4 | Dover | Dover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Strait | nmod |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Strait | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 France | cc |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wide | cop |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 33 | advmod |
| 11 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 km | nummod |
| 12 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wide | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wide | parataxis |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Dover | case |
| 25 | Dover | Dover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 one | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 one | cop |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 see | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lanes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lanes | det |
| 33 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 lanes | amod |
| 34 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lanes | compound |
| 35 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lanes | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 Dover between England and France | 33 km obl:unmarked; wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | can | you | France | Dover | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer france=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is a | present | strait | one | of the busiest shipping lanes in the world | 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:14.
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.
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