--- title: The Canal du Midi in southern France, built between 1666 and 1681, l… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Canal du Midi in southern France, built between 1666 and 1681, links the Mediterranean to the River Garonne, which flows to the Atlantic, so boats could avoid sailing all the way round Spain and Portugal. Who acts: Canal, River Garonne, boats. 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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 (Canal, River Garonne, boats), 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:17 # text = The Canal du Midi in southern France, built between 1666 and 1681, links the Mediterranean to the River Garonne, which flows to the Atlantic, so boats could avoid sailing all the way round Spain and Portugal. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 du du PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Midi Midi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1666 1666 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 1681 1681 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 links link VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Garonne Garonne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 30 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 33 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 round round ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | participle | | the Canal in southern France *not said here* | | | | between 1666 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **link** | present | the Canal in southern France | the Mediterranean | | | | to the River Garonne | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Patient to garonne=Co-Patient | | 3 | **flow** | present | the River Garonne | | | | | to the Atlantic | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **avoid** | could | boats | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **sail** | gerund | boats *not said here* | all way | | Spain and Portugal | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round spain=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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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