Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 19
The Kiel Canal in Germany, opened in 1895, links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and carries more ships each year than any other ship canal.
Who acts: Kiel Canal · What happens: open, link, carry · To what, where: 1895, North Sea, more 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 (Kiel 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 | Kiel | Kiel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Canal | compound |
| 3 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Germany | case |
| 5 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Canal | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Canal | punct |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1895 | case |
| 9 | 1895 | 1895 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 opened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 links | punct |
| 11 | links | link | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sea | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sea | compound |
| 14 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 links | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sea | det |
| 17 | Baltic | Baltic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Sea | amod |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 links | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carries | cc |
| 20 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 links | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 ships | amod |
| 22 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carries | obj |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carries | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 canal | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 canal | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 canal | amod |
| 28 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 canal | compound |
| 29 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carries | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 links | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Kiel Canal in Germany | 1895 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1895=Location | ||||
| 2 | link | present | the Kiel Canal in Germany not said here | the North Sea | to the Baltic Sea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | present | the Kiel Canal in Germany not said here | more ships | year | than any other ship canal | vn carry-11.4 «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:19.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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