--- title: The Strait of Dover between England and France is about 33 km wide,… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Strait of Dover between England and France is about 33 km wide, so on a clear day you can see France from Dover, and it is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Who acts: Strait, you. 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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, you), 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:14 # text = The Strait of Dover between England and France is about 33 km wide, so on a clear day you can see France from Dover, and it is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dover Dover PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 23 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Dover Dover PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 busiest busy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 shipping shipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 lanes lane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 Dover between England and France | | | | | 33 km *obl:unmarked*; wide *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | can | you | France | | Dover | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer france=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | strait | one | | | | of the busiest shipping lanes in the world | 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:14`. **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): 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,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/13/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)