Resources and what countries trade, sentence 4

Most goods now cross the sea in standard steel boxes on giant ships, squeezing through a few narrow passages called chokepoints, like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal.

Who acts: Most goods, few narrow passages · What happens: cross, squeeze, call · To what, where: sea, few narrow passages, chokepoints · 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 (Most goods, few narrow 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 goods	amod
2	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 cross	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 boxes	case
8	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boxes	amod
9	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boxes	compound
10	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ships	case
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ships	amod
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 boxes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 squeezing	punct
15	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cross	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	20 passages	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 passages	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 passages	amod
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 passages	amod
20	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 squeezing	obl
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 passages	acl
22	chokepoints	chokepoint	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Strait	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 Strait	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Strait	det
26	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 passages	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Malacca	case
28	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Strait	nmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 Canal	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Canal	det
31	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Canal	compound
32	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Strait	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	Most goods	the sea		now	in standard steel boxes on giant ships	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Patient in box=Topic
2	squeeze	gerund	Most goods not said here		a few narrow passages like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through passage=Trajectory
3	call	participle	a few narrow passages like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal not said here	chokepoints				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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