--- title: The Bering Strait, about 82 km wide, separates Russia from Alaska, a… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Bering Strait, about 82 km wide, separates Russia from Alaska, and during the Ice Age a land bridge there let the first people walk into the Americas. Who acts: Bering Strait, land bridge, first people. 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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 (Bering Strait, land bridge, first people), 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:17 # text = The Bering Strait, about 82 km wide, separates Russia from Alaska, and during the Ice Age a land bridge there let the first people walk into the Americas. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Bering Bering PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 82 82 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 7 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 separates separate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 16 during during ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **separate** | present | the Bering Strait | Russia | | | | from Alaska | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent russia=Patient from alaska=Co-Patient | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | a land bridge | | | | during the Ice Age | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | infinitive | the first people | | | | | into the Americas *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into americas=Result | 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:17`. **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 ×2, 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,…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/16/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)