--- title: The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, is about 193 km long and joins the M… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, is about 193 km long and joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without any locks. Who acts: Suez Canal. A sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/) / 9 # Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 9 The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, is about 193 km long and joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without any locks. **Who acts:** Suez Canal · **What happens:** open, be, join · **To what, where:** Suez Canal, 1869, Mediterranean This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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), 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:9 # text = The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, is about 193 km long and joins the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without any locks. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 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 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1869 1869 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 193 193 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 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 Red Red ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | participle | | the Suez Canal *not said here* | | 1869 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1869=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the Suez Canal | | | | | 193 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **join** | present | the Suez Canal *not said here* | the Mediterranean | | | | to the Red Sea; without any locks | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | 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:9`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/8/) - next →: [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/)