Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 13

The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and is about 82 km long, using locks to lift ships about 26 metres up to Gatun Lake and back down again.

Who acts: Panama Canal · What happens: open, be, use, lift · To what, where: 1914, locks, ships

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 (Panama Canal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Canal	det
2	Panama	Panama	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Canal	compound
3	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1914	case
6	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 opened	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 long	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 long	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 82	advmod
10	82	82	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 km	nummod
11	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 opened	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 using	punct
14	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
15	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 using	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lift	mark
17	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 using	advcl
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lift	obj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 26	advmod
20	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 metres	nummod
21	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lift	obl
22	up	up	ADP	_	25 Lake	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Lake	case
24	Gatun	Gatun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Lake	compound
25	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 metres	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 down	cc
27	back	back	ADV	_	28 down	advmod
28	down	down	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 down	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the Panama Canal		1914	down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1914=Location
2	is	present	the Panama Canal not said here			82 km obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
3	use	gerund	the Panama Canal not said here	locks			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
4	lift	to-infinitive	the Panama Canal not said here	ships		26 metres up Gatun Lake obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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