The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 4

The islands are small but never far from the sea: nowhere in the UK is more than about 113 km from tidal water, which helped make Britain a sea-trading power.

Who acts: islands, 113 km · What happens: be, help, make · To what, where: Britain

This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 (islands, 113 km), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 islands	det
2	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 more	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 far	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
12	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 more	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 UK	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 UK	det
15	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nowhere	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 more	cop
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 small	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 km	case
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 113	advmod
20	113	113	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 km	nummod
21	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 water	amod
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 km	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 helped	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 helped	nsubj
27	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 km	acl:relcl
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 helped	xcomp
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 power	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trading	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sea	punct
33	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 power	compound
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the islands		small property	tree rules
2	is	present	the islands not said here		than 113 km from tidal water; more, nowhere property	tree rules
3	help	past	113 km from tidal water			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	infinitive	113 km from tidal water not said here	Britain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset britain=Product

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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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 ×2, 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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