Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 12
Egypt took over the Suez Canal in 1956, leading to the Suez Crisis, and since a big share of world trade passes through it, it mattered when in March 2021 the giant ship Ever Given got stuck across it for six days, holding up hundreds of ships.
Who acts: Egypt, big share, it · What happens: take over, lead, pass, matter, hold up, share · To what, where: Suez Canal, 1956, canal, hundreds, world trade
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 (Egypt, big share, it), 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 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Canal | det |
| 5 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Canal | compound |
| 6 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1956 | case |
| 8 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leading | punct |
| 10 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Crisis | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crisis | det |
| 13 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Crisis | compound |
| 14 | Crisis | crisis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 leading | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mattered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mattered | cc |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 24 passes | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 share | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 share | amod |
| 20 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passes | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trade | case |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trade | compound |
| 23 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 share | nmod |
| 24 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mattered | advcl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passes | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passes | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 mattered | nsubj |
| 29 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 stuck | mark |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 March | case |
| 32 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 stuck | obl |
| 33 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 March | flat |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ship | det |
| 35 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ship | amod |
| 36 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stuck | nsubj |
| 37 | Ever | ever | PROPN | _ | 36 ship | flat |
| 38 | Given | given | PROPN | _ | 37 Ever | flat |
| 39 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stuck | aux:pass |
| 40 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mattered | advcl |
| 41 | across | across | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stuck | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 days | case |
| 44 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 days | nummod |
| 45 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 stuck | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 holding | punct |
| 47 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 stuck | advcl |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 holding | compound:prt |
| 49 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 holding | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 ships | case |
| 51 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 hundreds | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | past | Egypt | the Suez Canal | 1956 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | Egypt not said here | to the Suez Crisis | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crisis=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | a big share of world trade | canal | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location | ||||
| 4 | matter | past | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hold up | gerund | hundreds of ships | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme | |||||
| 6 | share | world trade | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:12.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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