Resources and what countries trade, sentence 18
A few narrow sea passages, called chokepoints, carry a huge share of world trade, such as the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal.
Who acts: few narrow sea passages · What happens: call, carry, share · To what, where: chokepoints, huge share, world trade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (few narrow sea passages), 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 | 5 passages | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passages | amod |
| 3 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passages | amod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passages | compound |
| 5 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chokepoints | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passages | acl |
| 8 | chokepoints | chokepoint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 share | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 share | amod |
| 13 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trade | case |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trade | compound |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 share | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Strait | punct |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 Strait | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Strait | det |
| 21 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 share | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Malacca | case |
| 23 | Malacca | Malacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Strait | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Canal | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Canal | det |
| 26 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Canal | compound |
| 27 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Strait | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Strait | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Strait | det |
| 30 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Strait | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Hormuz | case |
| 32 | Hormuz | Hormuz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Strait | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Canal | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Canal | det |
| 35 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Canal | compound |
| 36 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Strait | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a few narrow sea passages not said here | chokepoints | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | a few narrow sea passages | a huge share of world trade | such the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | |||
| 3 | share | world trade | such the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient such=obl |
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:18.
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 ×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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