Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 10

Using the Suez Canal shortens a voyage from London to Mumbai, in India, which Britain then ruled, by about 40 percent compared with sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.

Who acts: Using, Britain · What happens: use, shorten, rule, compare, sail · To what, where: Suez Canal, voyage, London, India, 40 percent, Cape

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 (Using, Britain), 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	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shortens	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Canal	det
3	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Canal	compound
4	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
5	shortens	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voyage	det
7	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shortens	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 London	case
9	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 voyage	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Mumbai	case
11	Mumbai	Mumbai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 voyage	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 India	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 India	case
14	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mumbai	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ruled	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ruled	obj
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ruled	nsubj
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ruled	advmod
19	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 India	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 percent	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 percent	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 40	advmod
23	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 percent	nummod
24	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shortens	obl
25	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 percent	acl
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 sailing	mark
27	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 compared	obl
28	around	around	ADP	_	30 Cape	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Cape	det
30	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sailing	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Good	case
32	Good	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Cape	nmod
33	Hope	Hope	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Good	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shortens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		the Suez Canal				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Patient
2	shorten	present	Using	a voyage	London		to Mumbai in India; by 40 percent	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient
3	rule	past	Britain	India		then		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	compare	participle		40 percent not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	sail	gerund			the Cape of Good			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around cape=Trajectory

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:10.

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): 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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