Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 1

Where the land is flat, ships just sail through; where the land rises, locks lift them up like steps: a lock is a chamber with gates that fills or empties with water so a ship floats up or down.

Who acts: land, ships, locks, lock, gates, ship · What happens: be, sail, rise, lift up, fill, empty · To what, where: ships, chamber

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 (land, ships, locks, lock), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 flat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flat	cop
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sail	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sail	punct
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sail	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 sail	advmod
9	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	15 rises	case
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rises	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 rises	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rises	nsubj
15	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lift	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 locks	punct
17	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lift	nsubj
18	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sail	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lift	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 lift	compound:prt
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 steps	case
22	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lift	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 chamber	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lock	det
25	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chamber	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 chamber	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chamber	det
28	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 steps	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 gates	case
30	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 chamber	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fills	nsubj
32	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gates	acl:relcl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 empties	cc
34	empties	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fills	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 water	case
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fills	obl
37	so	so	ADV	_	40 floats	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 ship	det
39	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 floats	nsubj
40	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sail	advcl
41	up	up	ADV	_	40 floats	advmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 down	cc
43	down	down	ADV	_	41 up	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sail	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the land		flat property	tree rules
2	sail	present	ships			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	rise	present	the land			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lift up	infinitive	locks	ships = ship	like steps and a chamber	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is a	present	a lock	a chamber	with gates	tree rules
6	fill	present	gates		with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
7	empty	present	gates not said here			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
8	float	present	a ship			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:1.

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 ×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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