--- title: Most goods now cross the sea in standard steel boxes on giant ships,… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: Most goods now cross the sea in standard steel boxes on giant ships, squeezing through a few narrow passages called chokepoints, like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal. Who acts: Most goods, few narrow passages. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/4/) [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/) / [Resources and what countries trade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/) / 4 # Resources and what countries trade, sentence 4 Most goods now cross the sea in standard steel boxes on giant ships, squeezing through a few narrow passages called chokepoints, like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal. **Who acts:** Most goods, few narrow passages · **What happens:** cross, squeeze, call · **To what, where:** sea, few narrow passages, chokepoints · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 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 (Most goods, few narrow 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:4 # text = Most goods now cross the sea in standard steel boxes on giant ships, squeezing through a few narrow passages called chokepoints, like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 nsubj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 chokepoints chokepoint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Malacca Malacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Suez Suez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | present | Most goods | the sea | | | now | in standard steel boxes on giant ships | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Patient in box=Topic | | 2 | **squeeze** | gerund | Most goods *not said here* | | | a few narrow passages like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through passage=Trajectory | | 3 | **call** | participle | a few narrow passages like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal *not said here* | chokepoints | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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: [Resources and what countries trade, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/3/) - next →: [Resources and what countries trade, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/)