Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 6
Think of a school corridor with one narrow door at the end: when one person stops in it, the whole queue gets stuck behind.
Who acts: you, one person · What happens: think, stop, stick · To what, where: strait, whole queue
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 (you, one person), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 corridor | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 corridor | det |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corridor | compound |
| 5 | corridor | corridor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 door | nummod |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corridor | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 stops | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stops | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 person | nummod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stops | nsubj |
| 17 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stuck | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stops | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stops | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 queue | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 queue | amod |
| 23 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stuck | aux:pass |
| 25 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 25 stuck | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a school corridor with one narrow door at the end | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | one person | strait | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 3 | stick | present · passive | the whole queue | behind property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:6.
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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