--- title: The Strait of Gibraltar is only about 14 km wide at its narrowest, s… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Strait of Gibraltar is only about 14 km wide at its narrowest, separating Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa, and it is the only natural entrance to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic. Who acts: Strait. 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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 (Strait), 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:10 # text = The Strait of Gibraltar is only about 14 km wide at its narrowest, separating Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa, and it is the only natural entrance to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Gibraltar Gibraltar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 narrowest narrow ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 separating separate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Morocco Morocco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Strait of Gibraltar | | | strait's narrowest | | 14 km *obl:unmarked*; wide *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **separate** | gerund | the Strait of Gibraltar *not said here* | Spain | | Europe | | from Morocco in Africa | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent spain=Patient from morocco=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | strait | the only natural entrance | | the Atlantic | | to the Mediterranean | 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](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:10`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/9/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)