Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 9
The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, is about 193 km long and joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without any locks.
Who acts: Suez Canal · What happens: open, be, join · To what, where: Suez Canal, 1869, Mediterranean
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 (Suez 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 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Canal | compound |
| 3 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 long | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Canal | punct |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Canal | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1869 | case |
| 7 | 1869 | 1869 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 opened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 193 | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | cop |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 193 | advmod |
| 11 | 193 | 193 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 km | nummod |
| 12 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 long | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joins | cc |
| 15 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mediterranean | det |
| 17 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 joins | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sea | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Sea | amod |
| 21 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 joins | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 locks | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 locks | det |
| 24 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 joins | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | the Suez Canal not said here | 1869 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1869=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Suez Canal | 193 km obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | join | present | the Suez Canal not said here | the Mediterranean | to the Red Sea; without any locks | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Patient to sea=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:9.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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