Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 7
A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of water, and a few straits carry a large share of the world's shipping.
Who acts: strait, narrow stretch, few straits, world · What happens: be, join, carry, share, ship · To what, where: narrow stretch, two larger bodies, large share, shipping
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 (strait, narrow stretch, few straits, world), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 strait | det |
| 2 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretch | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretch | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stretch | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stretch | amod |
| 6 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretch | nmod |
| 9 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stretch | acl |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bodies | nummod |
| 11 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 bodies | amod |
| 12 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 joining | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bodies | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 straits | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 straits | amod |
| 19 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretch | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 share | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 share | amod |
| 23 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 shipping | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shipping | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 world | case |
| 28 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 share | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a strait | a narrow stretch | of sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | gerund | a narrow stretch not said here | two larger bodies of water | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | a few straits | a large share of the world's shipping | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share | the world's shipping | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | ship | the world | nom shipping «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:7.
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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