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title: The Dardanelles links the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean, a part of th… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dardanelles links the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean, a part of the Mediterranean, and with the Bosporus it forms the Turkish Straits, the only sea way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, whose use by warships has been governed by the Montreux Convention since 1936. Who acts: Dardanelles, sea
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 9

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The Dardanelles links the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean, a part of the Mediterranean, and with the Bosporus it forms the Turkish Straits, the only sea way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, whose use by warships has been governed by the Montreux Convention since 1936.

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**Who acts:** Dardanelles, sea, Montreux Convention, warships · **What happens:** link, form, govern, use · **To what, where:** Sea, Turkish Straits, use

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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 (Dardanelles, sea, Montreux Convention, warships), 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:9
# text = The Dardanelles links the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean, a part of the Mediterranean, and with the Bosporus it forms the Turkish Straits, the only sea way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, whose use by warships has been governed by the Montreux Convention since 1936.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dardanelles	dardanelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Marmara	Marmara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Aegean	aegean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Bosporus	bosporus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Straits	Strait	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
35	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	warships	warship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl:relcl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Convention	convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
51	since	since	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	1936	1936	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	obl	_	_
53	.	.	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 | **link** | present | the Dardanelles | the Sea of Marmara |  |  |  | to the Aegean | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to aegean=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **form** | present | sea | the Turkish Straits |  |  |  | with the Bosporus | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strait=Theme |
| 3 | **govern** | present · perfect · passive | the Montreux Convention | use by warships |  |  | since 1936 |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **use** |  | warships |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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**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 ×2. **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.

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