Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 0
A canal is a waterway dug by people, a shortcut where nature left none.
Who acts: canal, nature · What happens: be, dig, leave · To what, where: waterway, none
This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» 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 (canal, nature), 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 canal | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waterway | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waterway | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 waterway | det |
| 5 | waterway | waterway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 waterway | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dug | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shortcut | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shortcut | det |
| 11 | shortcut | shortcut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waterway | appos |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 left | advmod |
| 13 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shortcut | acl:relcl |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waterway | 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 canal | a waterway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dig | participle | a waterway not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | nature | none | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:0.
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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