Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 15

The Bab-el-Mandeb, between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, is about 30 km wide and links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean; ships between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean pass through it, and if it is blocked they must go all the way round Africa.

Who acts: Bab el, ships · What happens: be, link, pass, block, go · To what, where: 30 km, Red Sea, el, way

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 (Bab el, ships), 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	4 el	det
2	Bab	bab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 el	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Bab	punct
4	el	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 km	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Mandeb	punct
6	Mandeb	Mandeb	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 el	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Yemen	punct
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 Yemen	case
9	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mandeb	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Horn	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Horn	det
12	Horn	horn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Yemen	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Africa	case
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Horn	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 el	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 km	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 30	advmod
18	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 km	nummod
19	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	wide	wide	ADV	_	19 km	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 links	cc
22	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 km	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sea	det
24	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Sea	flat
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 links	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Gulf	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Gulf	det
28	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 links	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Aden	case
30	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Gulf	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Ocean	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Ocean	det
33	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Ocean	amod
34	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Gulf	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 ships	punct
36	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pass	nsubj
37	between	between	ADP	_	40 Canal	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Canal	det
39	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Canal	compound
40	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 ships	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Ocean	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Ocean	det
43	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Ocean	amod
44	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Canal	conj
45	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 km	conj
46	through	through	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pass	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 go	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 go	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 blocked	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 blocked	nsubj:pass
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 blocked	aux:pass
53	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 go	advcl
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 go	nsubj
55	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 go	aux
56	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pass	conj
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 way	det:predet
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 way	det
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 go	obj
60	round	round	ADP	_	61 Africa	case
61	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 go	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 km	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 Bab el	30 km		wide property	tree rules
2	link	present	the Bab el not said here	the Red Sea		to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to gulf=Co-Patient
3	pass	present	ships between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean		el		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location
4	block a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		el			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	go	must	Ships = ship	all way		round Africa	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:15.

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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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