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title: China's Grand Canal, with parts over 2,000 years old, is the longest… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics
description: China's Grand Canal, with parts over 2,000 years old, is the longest canal in the world at about 1,800 km, joining Beijing to Hangzhou. Who acts: Grand Canal, longest canal. A sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 16

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China's Grand Canal, with parts over 2,000 years old, is the longest canal in the world at about 1,800 km, joining Beijing to Hangzhou.

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**Who acts:** Grand Canal, longest canal · **What happens:** be, join · **To what, where:** longest canal, world, Beijing, Hangzhou

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grand Canal, longest 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:16
# text = China's Grand Canal, with parts over 2,000 years old, is the longest canal in the world at about 1,800 km, joining Beijing to Hangzhou.
# 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): no change
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
4	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	1,800	1,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
26	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Hangzhou	Hangzhou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | China's Grand Canal with parts | the longest canal |  | the world |  | at 1,800 km | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | gerund | the longest canal *not said here* | Beijing | Hangzhou |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent beijing=Patient to hangzhou=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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