Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 17

The Bering Strait, about 82 km wide, separates Russia from Alaska, and during the Ice Age a land bridge there let the first people walk into the Americas.

Who acts: Bering Strait, land bridge, first people · What happens: separate, let, walk · To what, where: Russia, Americas

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 (Bering Strait, land bridge, first people), 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	3 Strait	det
2	Bering	Bering	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Strait	compound
3	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 separates	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 82	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 82	advmod
6	82	82	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Strait	appos
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wide	obl
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 82	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 82	punct
10	separates	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 separates	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 Alaska	case
13	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 separates	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 separates	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
16	during	during	ADP	_	19 Age	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Age	det
18	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Age	compound
19	Age	age	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 let	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bridge	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bridge	compound
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	nsubj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 bridge	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 separates	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 walk	nsubj
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 Americas	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Americas	det
31	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 walk	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 separates	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	separate	present	the Bering Strait	Russia		from Alaska	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent russia=Patient from alaska=Co-Patient
2	let	infinitive	a land bridge		during the Ice Age		tree rules
3	walk	infinitive	the first people			into the Americas result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into americas=Result

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:17.

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 ×2, 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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