Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 5

Today straits still matter: about a fifth of the oil the world uses normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so trouble there can make petrol dearer far away.

Who acts: Today straits, world, fifth, trouble · What happens: matter, use, pass, make · To what, where: oil, Strait, petrol

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 (Today straits, world, fifth, trouble), 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	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 straits	compound
2	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 fifth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fifth	det
8	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passes	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 oil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oil	det
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fifth	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 uses	nsubj
14	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 oil	acl:relcl
15	normally	normally	ADV	_	16 passes	advmod
16	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	conj
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 Strait	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Strait	det
19	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 passes	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Hormuz	case
21	Hormuz	Hormuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Strait	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 make	advmod
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	nsubj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 make	advmod
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matter	conj
28	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
29	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 make	xcomp
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 away	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	27 make	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Today straits			still		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	use	present	the world	the oil not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
3	pass	present	a fifth of the oil		the Strait of Hormuz		normally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location
4	make	can	trouble	petrol	there		away, dear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petrol=Product

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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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