--- title: The mountains shape everything here: Chile is squeezed into a long t… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics description: The mountains shape everything here: Chile is squeezed into a long thin strip by the Andes, and Bolivia's government works in La Paz, about 3,600 metres up, where visitors gasp for breath. Who acts: mountains, Andes, government, visitors. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Latin America and the Caribbean](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/) / 7 # Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 7 The mountains shape everything here: Chile is squeezed into a long thin strip by the Andes, and Bolivia's government works in La Paz, about 3,600 metres up, where visitors gasp for breath. **Who acts:** mountains, Andes, government, visitors · **What happens:** shape, squeeze, work, gasp · **To what, where:** everything, Chile, long thin strip This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (mountains, Andes, government, visitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:7 # text = The mountains shape everything here: Chile is squeezed into a long thin strip by the Andes, and Bolivia's government works in La Paz, about 3,600 metres up, where visitors gasp for breath. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shape shape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Chile Chile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 10 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Andes Andes PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 obl:agent _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 20 Bolivia Bolivia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 Paz Paz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 3,600 3,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 31 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gasp gasp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | present | the mountains | everything | | here | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | | 2 | **squeeze** | present · passive | the Andes | Chile | | a long thin strip | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent subject=Material into strip=Product | | 3 | **work** | present | Bolivia's government | | | | | in La | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in la=Theme | | 4 | **gasp** | present | visitors | | | | | for breath | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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