Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 4

But real straits are not all alike: Gibraltar is about 14 km wide while the Drake Passage is about 800 km of some of the roughest sea on Earth.

Who acts: real straits, Gibraltar, Drake Passage · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: 14 km, 800 km

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 (real straits, Gibraltar, Drake Passage), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 alike	cc
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 straits	amod
3	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 alike	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 alike	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 alike	advmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 alike	advmod
7	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 km	punct
9	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 km	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 km	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 14	advmod
12	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 km	nummod
13	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wide	obl
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 km	advmod
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 km	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Passage	det
17	Drake	drake	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Passage	compound
18	Passage	Passage	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 km	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 km	cop
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 800	advmod
21	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 km	nummod
22	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 alike	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 some	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 km	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
27	roughest	rough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 some	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 Earth	case
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sea	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 alike	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	real straits		alike, all property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Gibraltar	14 km		tree rules
3	is a	present	the Drake Passage	800 km	of some	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:4.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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