--- title: A canal does that for ships, and when one stuck ship, the Ever Given… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: A canal does that for ships, and when one stuck ship, the Ever Given, blocked Suez in 2021, hundreds of ships waited for six days. Who acts: canal, one stuck ship, hundreds. 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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, one stuck ship, hundreds), 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:7 # text = A canal does that for ships, and when one stuck ship, the Ever Given, blocked Suez in 2021, hundreds of ships waited for six days. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Ever Ever PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Given Given PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | a canal | that | | | | for ships | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **block** | past | one stuck ship | Suez | | 2021 | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent suez=Patient in 2021=Location | | 3 | **wait** | past | hundreds of ships | | | | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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, R8-pos-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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