--- title: Egypt took over the Suez Canal in 1956, leading to the Suez Crisis,… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: Egypt took over the Suez Canal in 1956, leading to the Suez Crisis, and since a big share of world trade passes through it, it mattered when in March 2021 the giant ship Ever Given got stuck across it for six days, holding up hundreds of ships. Who acts: Egypt, big share, it. 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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 (Egypt, big share, it), 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:12 # text = Egypt took over the Suez Canal in 1956, leading to the Suez Crisis, and since a big share of world trade passes through it, it mattered when in March 2021 the giant ship Ever Given got stuck across it for six days, holding up hundreds of ships. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 leading lead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Crisis crisis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 17 since since SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 mattered matter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 40 mark _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 33 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 Ever ever PROPN NNP _ 36 flat _ _ 38 Given given PROPN NNP _ 37 flat _ _ 39 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 across across ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take over** | past | Egypt | the Suez Canal | | 1956 | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Theme | | 2 | **lead** | gerund | Egypt *not said here* | | | | | to the Suez Crisis | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crisis=Patient | | 3 | **pass** | present | a big share of world trade | | | canal | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location | | 4 | **matter** | past | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **hold up** | gerund | | hundreds of ships | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme | | 6 | **share** | | | world trade | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/11/) - next →: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/)