--- title: The Bab-el-Mandeb, between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, is about 30… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Bab-el-Mandeb, between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, is about 30 km wide and links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean; ships between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean pass through it, and if it is blocked they must go all the way round Africa. Who acts: Bab el, ships. 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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 (Bab el, ships), 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:15 # text = The Bab-el-Mandeb, between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, is about 30 km wide and links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean; ships between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean pass through it, and if it is blocked they must go all the way round Africa. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Bab bab NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 el el NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Mandeb Mandeb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Yemen Yemen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Horn horn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 20 wide wide ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 links link VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 25 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Aden Aden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 37 between between ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 46 through through ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 50 if if SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 blocked block VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 advcl _ _ 54 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 57 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 59 det:predet _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 60 round round ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=59:nmod 62 . . PUNCT . _ 19 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 a** | present | the Bab el | 30 km | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **link** | present | the Bab el *not said here* | the Red Sea | | | | to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to gulf=Co-Patient | | 3 | **pass** | present | ships between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean | | | el | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location | | 4 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | el | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **go** | must | Ships *= ship* | all way | | | | round Africa | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:15`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/14/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)