--- title: A canal is a waterway dug by people, and locks, which are chambers w… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: A canal is a waterway dug by people, and locks, which are chambers with gates, let ships climb or descend between different water levels. Who acts: canal, locks, ships. 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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, locks, ships), 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:8 # text = A canal is a waterway dug by people, and locks, which are chambers with gates, let ships climb or descend between different water levels. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 waterway waterway NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 dug dug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 11 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 chambers chamber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 descend descend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 between between ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 levels level NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a canal | a waterway | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dug** | participle | | a waterway *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | locks | chambers | | | | with gates | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | locks | ships | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **climb** | infinitive | ships *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **descend** | infinitive | ships *not said here* | | | | | between different water levels | vn meander-47.7-1 «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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/7/) - next →: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/)