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title: The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesia… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, linking the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. Who acts: Strait, busiest shipping routes. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 11

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The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, linking the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** Strait, busiest shipping routes · **What happens:** be, link · **To what, where:** one, Indian Ocean

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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, busiest shipping routes), 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:11
# text = The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, linking the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Indonesian	Indonesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
22	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	linking	link	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | the Strait of Malacca between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra | one |  |  |  | of the busiest shipping routes in the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **link** | gerund | the busiest shipping routes in the world *not said here* | the Indian Ocean |  |  |  | to the Pacific | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient to pacific=Co-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:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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