Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 7
A canal does that for ships, and when one stuck ship, the Ever Given, blocked Suez in 2021, hundreds of ships waited for six days.
Who acts: canal, one stuck ship, hundreds · What happens: do, block, wait · To what, where: that, Suez, 2021
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, one stuck ship, hundreds), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 canal | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 does | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ships | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 waited | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 blocked | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ship | nummod |
| 11 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ship | amod |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blocked | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ships | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Given | det |
| 15 | Ever | Ever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Given | compound |
| 16 | Given | Given | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ship | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blocked | punct |
| 18 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 waited | advcl |
| 19 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 blocked | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 2021 | case |
| 21 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 blocked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 2021 | punct |
| 23 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 waited | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ships | case |
| 25 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hundreds | nmod |
| 26 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 waited | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a canal | that | for ships | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | block | past | one stuck ship | Suez | 2021 | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent suez=Patient in 2021=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | past | hundreds of ships | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): 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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