--- title: The Kiel Canal in Germany, opened in 1895, links the North Sea to th… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Kiel Canal in Germany, opened in 1895, links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and carries more ships each year than any other ship canal. Who acts: Kiel 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 (Kiel 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:19 # text = The Kiel Canal in Germany, opened in 1895, links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and carries more ships each year than any other ship canal. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Kiel Kiel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1895 1895 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 links link VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Baltic Baltic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the Kiel Canal in Germany | | | 1895 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1895=Location | | 2 | **link** | present | the Kiel Canal in Germany *not said here* | the North Sea | | | | to the Baltic Sea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | | 3 | **carry** | present | the Kiel Canal in Germany *not said here* | more ships | | | year | than any other ship canal | vn carry-11.4 «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:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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