Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 3
In Europa Universalis 5, straits are places where armies can cross between lands and where forts and trade are valuable, and that is true.
Who acts: straits, armies, forts, that · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: places, Europa
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 (straits, armies, forts, that), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 places | obl |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Europa | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 places | punct |
| 6 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 places | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 places | cop |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 cross | advmod |
| 10 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cross | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cross | aux |
| 12 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 places | acl:relcl |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 lands | case |
| 14 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cross | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 valuable | cc |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 valuable | advmod |
| 17 | forts | fort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 valuable | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trade | cc |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forts | conj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 valuable | cop |
| 21 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cross | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 true | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 true | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 true | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 true | cop |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 valuable | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 places | 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 a | present | straits | places | Europa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cross | can | armies | between lands | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | forts and trade | valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | true property | 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:3.
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): no change. 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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