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title: A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of wat… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of water, like a door between two rooms. Who acts: strait, narrow stretch. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 0

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A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of water, like a door between two rooms.

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**Who acts:** strait, narrow stretch · **What happens:** be, join · **To what, where:** narrow stretch, two larger bodies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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, narrow stretch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:0
# text = A strait is a narrow stretch of sea joining two larger bodies of water, like a door between two rooms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 019-straits-the-narrow-doors.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a strait | a narrow stretch |  |  |  | of sea; like a door between two rooms | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | gerund | a narrow stretch *not said here* | two larger bodies of water |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |

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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.

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**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:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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