--- title: Ships that want to go from one room to the other must squeeze throug… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: Ships that want to go from one room to the other must squeeze through the door, so whoever holds its sides can watch, tax or block them. Who acts: Ships, whoever. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ships, whoever), 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:1 # text = Ships that want to go from one room to the other must squeeze through the door, so whoever holds its sides can watch, tax or block them. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 12 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 tax tax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Ships | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ships *not said here* | | | one room | | to the other | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from room=Initial\_Location to other=Destination | | 3 | **squeeze** | must | Ships | | | the door | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through door=Trajectory | | 4 | **hold** | present | whoever | door's sides | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **watch** | can | whoever *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tax** | infinitive | whoever *not said here* | | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **block** | infinitive | whoever *not said here* | sides *= side* | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme | 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:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/0/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)