Resources and what countries trade, sentence 17
Most of the world's goods now travel in standard steel containers, all one size so cranes, ships, trains and lorries can handle them fast, on huge ships, the biggest of which carry over 20,000 containers.
Who acts: Most, cranes, biggest · What happens: travel, handle, carry over · To what, where: standard steel containers, lorries, huge ships, 20,000 containers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 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 (Most, cranes, biggest), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 goods | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goods | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 world | case |
| 6 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Most | nmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | _ | 8 travel | advmod |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 containers | case |
| 10 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 containers | amod |
| 11 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 containers | compound |
| 12 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 travel | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 size | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 size | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 size | nummod |
| 16 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 containers | appos |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 handle | advmod |
| 18 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 handle | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ships | punct |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cranes | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trains | punct |
| 22 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ships | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lorries | cc |
| 24 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ships | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 handle | aux |
| 26 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 size | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 handle | obj |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 handle | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ships | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 ships | case |
| 31 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ships | amod |
| 32 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 handle | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 biggest | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 biggest | det |
| 35 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 carry | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 biggest | nmod |
| 38 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 ships | acl:relcl |
| 39 | over | over | ADV | _ | 40 20,000 | advmod |
| 40 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 containers | nummod |
| 41 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 carry | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 travel | 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 | travel | present | Most of the world's goods | standard steel containers | now | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in container=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | handle | can | cranes and ships and trains and lorries | lorries = lorry | huge ships | fast property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 3 | carry over | present | the biggest | 20,000 containers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=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:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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 ×1, 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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