--- title: Today straits still matter: about a fifth of the oil the world uses… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: Today straits still matter: about a fifth of the oil the world uses normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so trouble there can make petrol dearer far away. Who acts: Today straits, world, fifth, trouble. 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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 (Today straits, world, fifth, trouble), 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:5 # text = Today straits still matter: about a fifth of the oil the world uses normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so trouble there can make petrol dearer far away. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 straits strait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 normally normally ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Hormuz Hormuz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 28 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 dearer dear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Today straits | | | | still | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 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 | | | the Strait of Hormuz | | normally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location | | 4 | **make** | can | trouble | petrol | | there | | away, dear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petrol=Product | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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,…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/4/) - next →: [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/)