Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 13

Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; it has been a British territory since 1713, and Spain still claims it.

Who acts: strait, Spain · What happens: guard, be, claim · To what, where: narrow strait, British territory, strait

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 (strait, Spain), 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	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gibraltar	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 tip	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tip	det
5	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tip	amod
6	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gibraltar	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Spain	case
8	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tip	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guards	punct
10	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Gibraltar	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strait	det
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 strait	amod
13	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guards	obj
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 Atlantic	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Atlantic	det
16	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 strait	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Mediterranean	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mediterranean	det
19	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Atlantic	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 territory	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 territory	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 territory	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 territory	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 territory	det
25	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 territory	amod
26	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gibraltar	appos
27	since	since	ADP	_	28 1713	case
28	1713	1713	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 territory	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 claims	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 claims	cc
31	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 claims	nsubj
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 claims	advmod
33	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Gibraltar	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 claims	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gibraltar	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present		the narrow strait		between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Beneficiary
2	is a	present · perfect	strait	a British territory	since 1713		tree rules
3	claim speech: other	present	Spain	strait	still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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