--- title: The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, joins the Mediterranean to the Red S… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea with no locks, because both seas are at nearly the same level; it cut a voyage from London to Mumbai by about 40 percent compared with sailing around Africa. Who acts: Suez Canal, seas, 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 (Suez Canal, seas, 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:2 # text = The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea with no locks, because both seas are at nearly the same level; it cut a voyage from London to Mumbai by about 40 percent compared with sailing around Africa. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1869 1869 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Mumbai Mumbai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 42 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 43 with with SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 44 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 obl _ _ 45 around around ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 Suez Canal | | | 1869 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1869=Location | | 2 | **join** | present | the Suez Canal *not said here* | the Mediterranean | | | | to the Red Sea; with no locks | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | both seas | | | the same level | | nearly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cut** | past | canal | a voyage | Mumbai | London | | by 40 percent | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer voyage=Patient to mumbai=Result by percent=Extent from london=Initial\_State | | 5 | **compare** | participle | canal *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sail** | gerund | | | | Africa | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around africa=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:2`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/1/) - next →: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/)