--- title: Using the Suez Canal shortens a voyage from London to Mumbai, in Ind… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: Using the Suez Canal shortens a voyage from London to Mumbai, in India, which Britain then ruled, by about 40 percent compared with sailing around the Cape of Good Hope. Who acts: Using, Britain. 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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 (Using, Britain), 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:10 # text = Using the Suez Canal shortens a voyage from London to Mumbai, in India, which Britain then ruled, by about 40 percent compared with sailing around the Cape of Good Hope. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 shortens shorten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Mumbai Mumbai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 17 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 25 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 with with SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 obl _ _ 28 around around ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Good Good ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 30 nmod _ _ 33 Hope Hope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | the Suez Canal | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Patient | | 2 | **shorten** | present | Using | a voyage | | London | | to Mumbai in India; by 40 percent | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient | | 3 | **rule** | past | Britain | India | | | then | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 4 | **compare** | participle | | 40 percent *not said here* | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sail** | gerund | | | | the Cape of Good | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around cape=Trajectory | 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:10`. **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): 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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