--- title: Where the land is flat, ships just sail through; where the land rise… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: Where the land is flat, ships just sail through; where the land rises, locks lift them up like steps: a lock is a chamber with gates that fills or empties with water so a ship floats up or down. Who acts: land, ships, locks, lock. 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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 (land, ships, locks, lock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:1 # text = Where the land is flat, ships just sail through; where the land rises, locks lift them up like steps: a lock is a chamber with gates that fills or empties with water so a ship floats up or down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sail sail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 empties empty VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 41 up up ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 down down ADV RB _ 41 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:conj 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the land | | | | | flat *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sail** | present | ships | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | present | the land | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lift up** | infinitive | locks | ships *= ship* | | | | like steps and a chamber | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a lock | a chamber | | | | with gates | tree rules | | 6 | **fill** | present | gates | | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 7 | **empty** | present | gates *not said here* | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 8 | **float** | present | a ship | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. 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