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title: The Bosporus joins the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is less than… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bosporus joins the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest, and divides Istanbul between Europe and Asia. Who acts: Bosporus. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography course of Mova's pri
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 8

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The Bosporus joins the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest, and divides Istanbul between Europe and Asia.

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**Who acts:** Bosporus · **What happens:** join, be, divide · **To what, where:** Black Sea, Istanbul

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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 (Bosporus), 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:8
# text = The Bosporus joins the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest, and divides Istanbul between Europe and Asia.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bosporus	Bosporus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Marmara	Marmara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **join** | present | the Bosporus | the Black Sea |  |  |  | to the Sea of Marmara | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to sea=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Bosporus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than 1 km; less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | present | the Bosporus *not said here* | Istanbul |  |  |  | between Europe and Asia | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent istanbul=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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