Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 5
Venice was built on islands in a shallow lagoon at the top of the Adriatic Sea.
What happens: build · To what, where: Venice, islands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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: 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 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lagoon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lagoon | det |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lagoon | amod |
| 9 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 islands | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sea | det |
| 15 | Adriatic | Adriatic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sea | compound |
| 16 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | Venice | islands in a shallow lagoon | at the top of the Adriatic Sea | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on island=Source |
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:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:5.
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. 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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