Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 17

The Canal du Midi in southern France, built between 1666 and 1681, links the Mediterranean to the River Garonne, which flows to the Atlantic, so boats could avoid sailing all the way round Spain and Portugal.

Who acts: Canal, River Garonne, boats · What happens: build, link, flow, avoid, sail · To what, where: Canal, Mediterranean, way, Spain

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 (Canal, River Garonne, boats), 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	2 Canal	det
2	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 links	nsubj
3	du	du	PART	_	2 Canal	case
4	Midi	Midi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Canal	flat
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 France	case
6	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 France	amod
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Canal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Canal	acl
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 1666	case
11	1666	1666	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 built	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 1681	cc
13	1681	1681	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 1666	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Canal	punct
15	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mediterranean	det
17	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 links	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 Garonne	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Garonne	det
20	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Garonne	compound
21	Garonne	Garonne	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 links	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flows	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 flows	nsubj
24	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Garonne	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Atlantic	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Atlantic	det
27	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 flows	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 avoid	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 avoid	advmod
30	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 avoid	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 avoid	aux
32	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 flows	advcl
33	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 avoid	xcomp
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 way	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sailing	obl
37	round	round	ADP	_	38 Spain	case
38	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 sailing	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Portugal	cc
40	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Spain	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 links	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	participle		the Canal in southern France not said here		between 1666	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	link	present	the Canal in southern France	the Mediterranean		to the River Garonne	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Patient to garonne=Co-Patient
3	flow	present	the River Garonne			to the Atlantic	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	avoid	could	boats				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	sail	gerund	boats not said here	all way	Spain and Portugal		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round spain=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:17.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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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