Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 16
China's Grand Canal, with parts over 2,000 years old, is the longest canal in the world at about 1,800 km, joining Beijing to Hangzhou.
Who acts: Grand Canal, longest canal · What happens: be, join · To what, where: longest canal, world, Beijing, Hangzhou
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 (Grand Canal, longest 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Canal | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 China | case |
| 3 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 4 Canal | compound |
| 4 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 canal | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 parts | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 parts | case |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Canal | nmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 2,000 | advmod |
| 9 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parts | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Canal | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 canal | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 canal | det |
| 15 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 canal | amod |
| 16 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 canal | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 km | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 1,800 | advmod |
| 22 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 km | nummod |
| 23 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 canal | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joining | punct |
| 25 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 canal | acl |
| 26 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 joining | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Hangzhou | case |
| 28 | Hangzhou | Hangzhou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 joining | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 canal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | China's Grand Canal with parts | the longest canal | the world | at 1,800 km | tree rules | ||
| 2 | join | gerund | the longest canal not said here | Beijing | Hangzhou | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent beijing=Patient to hangzhou=Co-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:16.
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): no change. 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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