--- title: Each ship passing through the Panama Canal uses about 200 million li… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: Each ship passing through the Panama Canal uses about 200 million litres of fresh water, and a drought in 2023 forced the canal to limit the number of ships. Who acts: ship, drought, 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 (ship, drought, 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:15 # text = Each ship passing through the Panama Canal uses about 200 million litres of fresh water, and a drought in 2023 forced the canal to limit the number 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nummod 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ _ 22 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 limit limit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | gerund | each ship *not said here* | | | the Panama Canal | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through canal=Location | | 2 | **use** | present | each ship | million litres of fresh water | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient | | 3 | **force** | past | a drought in 2023 | the canal | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent canal=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **limit** | to-infinitive | the canal *not said here* | the number of ships | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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