Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 9
The Channel Tunnel joins England and France under the sea with three tunnels, two for trains and one service tunnel between them; it is about 50 km long, opened in 1994, is nicknamed the Chunnel, and its trains are electric.
Who acts: Channel Tunnel, sea, trains · What happens: join, be, open, nickname · To what, where: England, sea, 50 km, 1994
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology 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 (Channel Tunnel, sea, trains), 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 | 3 Tunnel | det |
| 2 | Channel | Channel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tunnel | compound |
| 3 | Tunnel | tunnel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joins | nsubj |
| 4 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joins | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 France | cc |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 England | conj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joins | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tunnels | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 tunnels | nummod |
| 13 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 joins | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 two | punct |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 tunnels | appos |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 trains | case |
| 17 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 two | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tunnel | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 tunnel | nummod |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tunnel | compound |
| 21 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trains | conj |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tunnel | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 joins | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 long | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 long | cop |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 50 | advmod |
| 28 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 km | nummod |
| 29 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 long | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joins | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 opened | punct |
| 32 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 km | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1994 | case |
| 34 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 opened | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 nicknamed | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 nicknamed | aux:pass |
| 37 | nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 joins | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Chunnel | det |
| 39 | Chunnel | chunnel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 nicknamed | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 electric | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 electric | cc |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 trains | nmod:poss |
| 43 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 electric | nsubj |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 electric | cop |
| 45 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 nicknamed | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | the Channel Tunnel | England and France | the sea | with three tunnels | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent england=Patient with tunnel=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | is | present | sea | 50 km obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | participle | 50 km not said here | 1994 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location | ||||
| 4 | nickname | present · passive | the Channel Tunnel not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | is | present | sea's trains | electric property | tree rules |
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:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:9.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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