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description: The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, is the only sea exit from the Persian Gulf, and normally about a fifth of the oil the world uses passes through it. Who acts: Strait, world, fifth. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the 
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 13

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The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, is the only sea exit from the Persian Gulf, and normally about a fifth of the oil the world uses passes through it.

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**Who acts:** Strait, world, fifth · **What happens:** be, use, pass · **To what, where:** only sea exit, Persian Gulf, oil, strait

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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, world, fifth), 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:13
# text = The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, is the only sea exit from the Persian Gulf, and normally about a fifth of the oil the world uses passes through it.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hormuz	Hormuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
22	normally	normally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 Hormuz between Iran and Oman | the only sea exit |  | the Persian Gulf |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | the world | the oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present | a fifth of the oil |  |  | strait |  | normally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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