--- title: A few narrow sea passages, called chokepoints, carry a huge share of… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: A few narrow sea passages, called chokepoints, carry a huge share of world trade, such as the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal. Who acts: few narrow sea passages. 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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 (few narrow sea passages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:18 # text = A few narrow sea passages, called chokepoints, carry a huge share of world trade, such as the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 chokepoints chokepoint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Malacca Malacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Hormuz Hormuz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Panama Panama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | a few narrow sea passages *not said here* | chokepoints | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | present | a few narrow sea passages | a huge share of world trade | | | | such the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | | 3 | **share** | | | world trade | | | | such the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient such=obl | 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:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:18`. **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 ×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: [Resources and what countries trade, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/17/) - next →: [Resources and what countries trade, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/)