--- title: The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and is about 82 km long, using locks… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and is about 82 km long, using locks to lift ships about 26 metres up to Gatun Lake and back down again. Who acts: Panama Canal. 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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 (Panama Canal), 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:13 # text = The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and is about 82 km long, using locks to lift ships about 26 metres up to Gatun Lake and back down again. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 82 82 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 15 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 22 up up ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Gatun Gatun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the Panama Canal | | | 1914 | | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1914=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the Panama Canal *not said here* | | | | | 82 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | gerund | the Panama Canal *not said here* | locks | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | | 4 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the Panama Canal *not said here* | ships | | | | 26 metres up Gatun Lake *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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