Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 15

Each ship passing through the Panama Canal uses about 200 million litres of fresh water, and a drought in 2023 forced the canal to limit the number of ships.

Who acts: ship, drought, canal · What happens: pass, use, force, limit · To what, where: Panama Canal, million litres, canal, number

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 (ship, drought, 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 uses	nsubj
3	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ship	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 Canal	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Canal	det
6	Panama	Panama	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Canal	compound
7	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 passing	obl
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
10	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 litres	nummod
12	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 uses	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 litres	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 forced	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drought	det
19	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forced	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 2023	case
21	2023	2023	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 drought	nmod
22	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 uses	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 canal	det
24	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forced	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 limit	mark
26	limit	limit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forced	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 number	det
28	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 limit	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 ships	case
30	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 number	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	gerund	each ship not said here		the Panama Canal	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through canal=Location
2	use	present	each ship	million litres of fresh water		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient
3	force	past	a drought in 2023	the canal		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent canal=Recipient clause=Topic
4	limit	to-infinitive	the canal not said here	the number of ships		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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